An Edmonton not-for-profit venue laid off its entire fleet of parking attendants without cause earlier this week, after it said more than $1-million of revenue was unaccounted for.

On Friday, some of the jobless employees met to discuss their options.

Sarah Pollard was among the employees at the meeting in a parking lot. She said she didn’t steal anything.

“If you’re going to accuse me of being a thief,” Pollard said, “then I’m going to fight it.”

Northland said it decided to replace the parking workers after an audit over two months of last summer that used video footage, car counting and direct monitoring of cashiers.

“The loss was of such significance that we needed to react quickly, and so we did,” said president and CEO Tim Reid.

Northlands said it hasn’t yet filed a police report.

“If we can prove that there is theft, we will take criminal action in every case,” Reid said, “but quite frankly we need to be able to prove it.”

Reid insists that “legitimate thefts” did occur, and noted employees may also have been letting in people for free.

City Councillor Michael Oshry said he would like to see a police investigation.

Northlands has now outsourced parking to Impark.

With a report from CTV Edmonton’s Bill Fortier