Your A/P department wants to prevent fraud, but is working side-by-side with staffers in the buff the right way to do it?

Employers at a Hindu shrine in southern India didn’t knock the practice until they tried it. Employees at the temple were required to count donations from visitors, but to keep workers from skimming a little off the top, managers implemented a dress code: work topless.

In defense of the practice, the temple pointed out that employees weren’t fully nude — that’d just be inappropriate. Instead, workers were permitted to wear only a wrap around the waist — everything else was banned so that employees wouldn’t be able to pocket donations.

Unfortunately for the temple’s anti-theft program, a human rights commission just outlawed the practice. Authorities at the shrine now plan to get with the times and install an electronic surveillance system.

Tags: Anti-theft, Donations, Fraud prevention, Human rights, Surveillance