Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in Florida

Employee Discount

Employee in Fl shares her company discount with her niece in VA for furniture over the course of 1.5 years. Employee also shares her discount with other friends and family. Employee upset her boss, boss seeks revenge, reports employees purchasing activity. Company bosses investigate find many purchases for same person. Company makes employee sign forms admitting to fraud and requiring her to repay the difference from the savings. Since niece got the most savings employee is asking her to pay the large debt so the employee does not get sued. The niece has no ability to refute the situation yet she is being held responsible to uphold the demands of the Company, attorney, or whom ever is making the demands. None of the other friends that received have been required to pay back any savings they received. The employee is complying to all the demands and dealing with some harassment. What is ethical here, how does the niece protect herself, she has the furniture, but the discount was offered to her as a gift? The niece is struggling to pay this and the employee is being hounded and worried about her credit. If a person is paying something on a debt and showing compliance can they be taken to court and sued for this debt?


Asked on 1/30/08, 8:46 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: Employee Discount

The niece should arrange to discuss this matter with an attorney who can advise her, accordingly. In my opinion she has no liability for whatever purchases she may have made at discount and the company's focus in terms of remedying whatever losses it may have been incurred should be on the employee who may have acted inappropriately in making the discount available to other folks and not the persons(including the niece) who have no relationship with this company.(The niece will only "be held responsbile to uphold the demands of the company, attorney, or whomever is making the demands", if she permits such to happen, and a well crafted letter from a lawyer in her behalf should shut them down rather quickly.)

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Answered on 2/08/08, 8:02 am


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