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Wrongful termination Suit?

I am being blamed for for stealing $66.oo from my employer.

I'm a night auditor for a a hotel, and through out the night i also take care of the customer service aspect for guests that are up late, or looking for a snack. We aquire money through the purchases of these snacks and we keep it in a cash regester type of a drawer... Well, we have a daily process that everyone follows and has worked out fine for the past 1 year that i have been employed here. The process is as follows: The registure drawer should have exactly $250.00 in it at the start and at the end of every shift. So we sell these market items through out whatever shift we maybe working that day... At the end of every shift the employee prints out a report that includes a ticket that tells you how much of the money in the drawer shuold be removed and submitted to the safe. My co-workers and i followed this exact procedure. we all worked our shifts, printed our "Cash In" reports, and re counted our drawers to ensure 250 was the balance. Every thing added up nicely as it always does. well, the next day, the paperwork is requesting 66 dollars more than all of our shift reports are adding up to be... the extra transactions occured during my shift, but were not recorded on my "end of shift" report. The money i put in the safe was the same amount that was requested by the report. I counted my drawer, and it was 250... there was no extra 66 dollars... it doesn't exist.. I didn't take it, but i got fired for it.

anyone know if i have a wrongful termination case??

A. I didn't do it...

B. the only proof they have to support their theory is some mis matched paper work

C. our computer system is an old dos based program that tends to screw up quite a bit.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Assuming you're in the US, employment is at will and you can be fired for any reason or no reason at all. Even if they're wrong, it's not "wrongful termination". You may be able to fight to get unemployment, since the firing was not truly "for cause," but that's about the limit of your rights.

  • 1 decade ago

    In the United States, the only thing that qualifies as "wrongful termination" is if you had a contract to work for a finite period of time and they fired you before the contract was expired for something that you did not do. Also, a company may not fire a person based on anything protected by the EOA (race, sex, nationality, etc.). Otherwise, a company can fire you for whatever reason it wants or for no reason at all. So, while morally you may have been wronged, by law you were not. Start fresh at another job.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This fact pattern has no legal merit to get anywhere in a court of law, sorry.

    On the other hand, I could use some help with a snack bub.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Don't throw money at a lawyer. Get another job and move on.

    If you work in the US they can lie or not, and fire you when they want.

    A special labor department is there to not help you, not justice.

    Good luck finding a union job, or just move on every so often.

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