The Catalan High Court considered as justified the dismissal of the hotel, housekeeping manager, who had stolen six rolls of toilet paper from the hotel and left with them through the back door.

The housekeeping manager (who was suing them for 60,318 euros) had been employed at the hotel for three decades when, a day after the incident, she received her dismissal letter. 

To explain her behaviour, the woman argued that, “When my son came to pick me up, the dog had vomited in the car, so I took it to clean it up.”

Following her dismissal, the ex-employee chose to go to the lawcourts in Mataró, which partially upheld her lawsuit, as it considered that what happened was not serious enough to warrant dismissal, taking into account the low economic value of the toilet paper and that it was justified by the “canine emergency.”

However, the hotel company decided to appeal before the Catalan High Court to uphold the appeal. The court noted that the veterinarian’s certificate was dated after the offence, and the video surveillance cameras did not support her story. 

Furthermore, it validated the document signed by the employee in which she expressly admitted to the theft, ruling out that there had been any flaw in her consent.

On the other hand, the High Court pointed out in its ruling that, “The severity of this type of conduct does not depend on the damage caused or the cost of what was stolen, but on the irreparable breach of trust and contractual good faith.”

So, the six toilet rolls ended up costing her 60,318 euros and a job with a hotel that had employed her the last 30 years…

(News: Mataró, Cataluña)

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