Not if the employee read and acknowledged a rule that says no free meals if you aren't on shift. Employees do not ring up their own free meals, only the manager does that.I smell a lawsuit...He/she was entitled.
The employee gets written up for two infractions as well as the false claim of being sick and failing to show. He actually didn't even call in until 30 minutes after his shift started....
In five years we have yet to pay an unemployment claim from an employee we've terminated.