Does your policy manual address possible conflicts if employees have other jobs outside your company? Side jobs can cause problems. For example: A milkman in Burnley, Great Britain, could have gone to jail for up to 36 months for his special deliveries.
Seventy-two-year-old Robert Holding admitted delivering pot along his milk route.
He claims he only sold it to elderly customers for their aches and pains and that he didn’t make a profit from it, according to wire service reports.
A judge issued a 36-month prison sentence but suspended it because Holding visits his wife, who has Alzheimer’s disease, every day in a nursing home.
The judge told Holding he wasn’t a philanthropist helping the elderly out of the goodness of his heart. The jurist says this was a case of dealing drugs for profit.
The prosecutor also said there’s no evidence that the drug sales were only to elderly customers.
But Holding stands by his story.
Milkman spared jail for deliveries other than dairy products
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