Asked by the Customer on 30-08-2019 11:15:55
Question posted in the General Law category relating to Western Cape
My husbands ex employer is withholding remuneration owed to him on the grounds that there were loss/damages to the company due to what they claim was poor workmanship. He never recieved any warnings or hearings to that effect and these allegations have previously been threatened to him when he wanted to proceed with a CCMA case. In the resignation letter they asked him to sign(instead of being dismissed due to an altercation with a co worker)he agreed to loss deductions to be made off any overtime he had worked. However there was no specific amount of losses specified nor was he given the opportunity to defend himself in terms of why the losses should not be deducted. They have proceeded to harrass him via watsapp and when he reacted with a voicenote using strong language they then threatened to use the voicenote against him. They are also now claiming he passed racist remarks and are threatening to make a case against him, they allege the remarks were made to date 8 weeks ago. Are they within their legal rights to make these types of deductions and lay charges for alleged racism at this point?
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