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How Zespri's CEO dealt to jailed employee

Lain Jager described the employee's five-year prison sentence as an "outside event.”

Jamie Ball
Fri, 24 Apr 2015

Zespri sacked a jailed employee for being involved in smuggling even though his employer, Zespri's China subsidiary, was itself convicted of the under-declaration of customs duties in China between 2008 and 2010 over the same events.

Zespri's stated rationale for dismissing employee Joseph Yu was

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Jamie Ball
Fri, 24 Apr 2015
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