(live here) – The Labor Court in Haifa approved a class action against the Victory chain, alleging that it forced cashiers to pay out of pocket for deficiencies discovered at the cash registers.
The Haifa Labor Court, presided over by Judge Alex Kogan, approved a class action lawsuit filed by attorney Eitan Peleg from Haifa, an expert in class actions, on behalf of a cashier who worked at the chain's branch in Tirat Carmel. According to the employee, she was forced to pay NIS 15.5 in cash from her pocket to the branch's cashier, due to According to her, she did this "with the understanding that she had to pay the missing amount, in order to keep her job".
During the hearings at the Haifa Labor Court, Attorney Peleg presented a WhatsApp message that was sent to all the cashiers in the branch, in which they were asked to pay the lack of funds found in each of them to their supervisor. In his decision to accept the class action, the judge wrote that Victory claimed that the cashier had paid It was brought up voluntarily "without any evidentiary basis".
He also presented a class action against Victory that was approved about four years ago in the Jerusalem Labor Court, according to which the chain then used to deduct the amounts directly from the cash register employees' paychecks. After that class action lawsuit was approved, Victory realized the danger involved in the deduction that has documentation on the payslip, and chose to carry out the collection covertly - cash payment from the employees.
As mentioned, the Labor Court in Haifa accepted the claims of attorney Eitan Peleg and stated that "Victory is driving
In practice, collect money from the cashiers in cash for deficiencies found in their cash registers on time
the shift, without having previously carried out an orderly investigation procedure regarding the source of the shortage in the cash register and without collection
The aforementioned funds from the cashiers and the cashiers receive some form of expression in the payslips. Meaning of collection
This is a salary deduction contrary to the law from employees who earn minimum wage, which is not in accordance with the law
Wage protection and in apparent violation of the Minimum Wage Law and contrary to public policy."
The Victory Company recently submitted a request for leave to appeal to the National Labor Court. No decision yet
was given
The judge noted: "The applicant presented an actual, seemingly, factual and legal basis and convinced to a degree of reasonableness
Worthy of the current stage, because Victory actually collects cash from the cashiers
In respect of deficiencies found in their cash register during the shift without having previously carried out an orderly investigation procedure
Regarding the source of the shortage in the cash register and without the collection of the aforementioned funds from the cashiers and cashiers receiving expression
any of the pay slips and that apparently this collection means deducting wages from employees contrary to law
Those who earn minimum wage, this is not in accordance with the Wage Protection Law in apparent violation of
Minimum Wage Law and contrary to public policy."
He also stated that the representing attorney must publish a notice regarding the approval of the claim and its publication in two daily newspapers in Hebrew with a national circulation, in one daily newspaper in the Arabic language and in one daily newspaper in the Russian language so that cashiers who have worked at the Victory chain for the past seven years and had to pay out of pocket in cash for shortages at the cash registers at the end of each working day, will be added to the group approved as a class action.
The Victory network has yet to respond.
Errors/shortcomings at checkout -
It is not possible to deduct amounts from the employee's salary for mistakes he made in the course of work, even if the employee signs in advance consent to such deductions.
In DM (BS) 1210/01 Greenspan Isak v. Yesh from Human Resources Services (on the Nevo website) it was determined that a deduction of NIS 660 from a gas station employee's salary for filling fuel incorrectly is illegal, even though the employer showed consent to such a deduction in the employment contract.
It is not customary for a racist to pay for shortages at the cash registers. Even cashiers at the bank do not pay from their own money for a shortage and if there is an excess. An excess is worse because it means that the customers may have been cheated.
Insolence and boldness on the part of "Victory" ‼️
Believes and hopes that Victory will lose the legal action
oblige the cashiers to pay from their own money
A deficit in the cash register. Insolence on the part of Victory's management.
The cashier is solely responsible for counting her cash register,
She opens it, admires it and closes it during the day.
If there is a shortage in that cashier's cash register - the cashier is responsible for that shortage, whether on purpose or by mistake.
It's not about a thief emptying her cash register during the day or anyone else's mistake other than that cashier who throughout her entire shift is the only one who deals with money.
The cashier made a human error.
There is room to give up and come towards,
But why is it impudence to demand that you complete the amount?
I'll tell you a secret - it's written in her employment contract and she signed it.
I'll tell you another secret - it's not just a clause in cashiers' contracts.
Just tickled you to shout "insolence"?
I heard that "shame" is more catchy today.
First of all, she made a mistake, she needs to pay, she's the cashier, she probably missed a cut or something, that's her problem, and it should also be written in the contract, probably any shortfall the cashier will pay just on a claim in order to spend more money, what a disgusting one, another one who thinks they'll listen to her, poor thing, she went too far, she signed about a work contract and I don't know what I really feel sorry for such people and check out a Moroccan without a brain she went to be a cashier😭🤣
I don't understand how you write such racist words.
She is a cashier.
There is no right to collect money from cashiers for deficiencies.
What, she stole and pocketed?
It is a fact that the court decided in the previous judgment that Victory is breaking the law when it collects from the paycheck, so Victory now collects the shortfalls in cash to avoid the mentioned judgment.
Insolence!!!!