Dear All,
For my query, i have gone/searched through old threads, but still I am uncertain about it. A incident happened in our organization 3-4 months back where one of our Office-boy stole money from purse/wallet of 2 employees. When they complained, we observed the CCTV footages and could clearly see that person (office boy) taking out money from their wallets in their absence. We interrogated him, showed him the footage and then after a day he confessed. We recovered the stolen amount of money from him before we terminated him.
Now my confusion here is that if we have already recovered stolen money from him, then is he now eligible to get bonus? The management is in the view that we shall not pay him bonus and they support this statement by Sec.9 from Payment of Bonus Act, where under head "Disqualification for Bonus", it is mentioned that
Notwithstanding anything contained in this
Act, an employee shall be disqualified from receiving bonus under this Act, if he
is dismissed from service for --
(a) fraud; or
(b) riotous or violent behaviour while on the premises of the establishment;
or
(c) theft, misappropriation or sabotage of any property of the
establishment.
Kindly guide me if bonus is payable to that worker in this case.
For my query, i have gone/searched through old threads, but still I am uncertain about it. A incident happened in our organization 3-4 months back where one of our Office-boy stole money from purse/wallet of 2 employees. When they complained, we observed the CCTV footages and could clearly see that person (office boy) taking out money from their wallets in their absence. We interrogated him, showed him the footage and then after a day he confessed. We recovered the stolen amount of money from him before we terminated him.
Now my confusion here is that if we have already recovered stolen money from him, then is he now eligible to get bonus? The management is in the view that we shall not pay him bonus and they support this statement by Sec.9 from Payment of Bonus Act, where under head "Disqualification for Bonus", it is mentioned that
Notwithstanding anything contained in this
Act, an employee shall be disqualified from receiving bonus under this Act, if he
is dismissed from service for --
(a) fraud; or
(b) riotous or violent behaviour while on the premises of the establishment;
or
(c) theft, misappropriation or sabotage of any property of the
establishment.
Kindly guide me if bonus is payable to that worker in this case.