Neither a thief nor disloyal. In Sassari, the Labor Judge reinstates an employee of the local Conforama branch who was fired “for just cause” by the company almost a year ago. And he denies the accusatory line born from an episode last March when, according to the local managers of the chain, the worker hid the receipt of a sale, stole 50 euros and then canceled the same receipt to try to hide the purchase.
Alleged maneuvers aimed at appropriating the money and “revealed” when it was verified that an item had not been returned but purchased. To discover the mystery, the store manager had relied on the images of the video surveillance to review the suspicious sequence , a vision that had resulted in a complaint to the police for theft and the expulsion from the workplace of the woman, also a union leader, where she had worked for twenty years as a cashier.
Since her words in her defense had gone unheard, she had turned to the lawyer Pantaleo Cambedda and the provincial secretary of the tertiary sector Ugl Giada Sechi for the appeal. The appeal was concluded in recent days with the ruling of judge Matteo Girolametti who overturned the decision of Conforama, emphasizing how the video, which should have provided the key evidence of the theft, actually completely exonerates the employee.
Because you see the woman taking a heavy object and not a banknote , as well as the fact that the receipt did not disappear but remained on the cashier's work surface. Finally, the magistrate emphasized that not even the documentary checks attest to anything illegal. For these reasons, the judge ordered the immediate reinstatement in the workplace, the reimbursement of the legal costs and the payment of wages and compensation from the day of dismissal.