What action can you take if your employer asks you to commit fraud by signing documents that a customer should sign. All of the managers were put on finals by corporate but what can the employees do.
What can you do if your company is asking employees to commit fraud?
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We need to remember that companies do not commit fraud, people do. If people at your company are asking seriously asking you to commit fraud then: a) resign immediately, b) go above those employees and whistle-blow or c) challenge your employer to do the right thing with the understanding that if they don't you will do a or b with extreme prejudice. Doing anything else makes you complicit in the fraud should it be perpetrated. Punting the problem to someone else makes you just unethical as signing yourself. Note that doing either a or b will most likely lead to an immediate setback in your
First, submit your resignation. Second report the fact to the local prosecutor.
Fraud, no matter how small, is a criminal act.
Resign, yes. Disclosure might result in violation of non-disclosure agreements and result in the individual being sued for damages incurred by the disclosing employee. That is what I was told by a large law firm specializing in labor law in Houston.
Check your state for Whistleblower laws..