minnesotakent
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Minnesota
I am the president of a local union. A member of my union approached me with an allegation that two members of the union have been getting reimbursed by more than one organization for the same expenses and have also claimed these reimbursed expenses as union/business on their income taxes. Here's an example: they go to training and submit to get all of their expenses reimbursed by the regional and by the state union organizations. The organizations involved are the local union, a regional body of the union, the state union, and the employer.
These two union members are involved in the leadership of the local, regional, and state unions and they are in lower level leadership positions with our employer.
After listening to the person making the allegations, I think there could be validity in what he told me. The dilemma for me is that we don't, at this point, have any evidence. I would like to have the allegations investigated. I am not sure how to do this without putting myself in legal trouble (slander?) in case the allegations are unfounded. I also would hate to bring forward these allegations and find out that they are false.
The dollar amount we are talking about is several thousands of dollars for each of them per year going back at least five years.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I am the president of a local union. A member of my union approached me with an allegation that two members of the union have been getting reimbursed by more than one organization for the same expenses and have also claimed these reimbursed expenses as union/business on their income taxes. Here's an example: they go to training and submit to get all of their expenses reimbursed by the regional and by the state union organizations. The organizations involved are the local union, a regional body of the union, the state union, and the employer.
These two union members are involved in the leadership of the local, regional, and state unions and they are in lower level leadership positions with our employer.
After listening to the person making the allegations, I think there could be validity in what he told me. The dilemma for me is that we don't, at this point, have any evidence. I would like to have the allegations investigated. I am not sure how to do this without putting myself in legal trouble (slander?) in case the allegations are unfounded. I also would hate to bring forward these allegations and find out that they are false.
The dollar amount we are talking about is several thousands of dollars for each of them per year going back at least five years.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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