The professor will need to have given the college a improper bill for a whole bunch of hundreds of kroner

SWEDEN

It’s mentioned {that a} Swedish professor gave an bill to the college the place he works when he ought to have paid himself.

Luleå Technical College evaluations and fires a professor, writes the Swedish public broadcaster, Sveriges Tv (SVT).

It’s mentioned that the professor despatched invoices to the college for patents he labored on in a non-public firm.

“He needed to pay himself,” says the college’s HR supervisor, Tommy Viklund.

In a report back to the Nationwide Accountability Committee, Chancellor Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn writes “A professor at Luleå College of Know-how has enriched himself on the expense of the college and prompted nice monetary injury”, that’s, he has enriched himself on the expense. of the examine space and prompted vital monetary injury.

Twenty errors

– It was when an bill got here to the pinnacle of the division for an settlement that it was found that it was an bill to be paid by the worker himself. It was about patent prices that the worker had appealed, says Viklund.

When the college went again in time, they noticed that there have been about twenty incorrect invoices from 2019. The quantity concerned was between NOK 300,000 and NOK 400,000.

– breaking the employment settlement

It’s the authority of the state The Nationwide Accountability Board who’s now getting the matter on his desk. Right here issues associated to disciplinary legal responsibility, prosecution, dismissal and suspension for presidency workers in greater positions are determined.

Rector Bergvall-Kåreborn tells SVT that the conduct significantly violates the professor’s employment settlement.

“It’s totally uncommon to have such a case in opposition to a professor,” says Viklund.