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May 19, 2021 A clerk from a fishmonger department in a supermarket in Florence was fired in 2019 for giving a customer two shrimp - worth 21 cents - without charging them, having been asked to do an 'allergy test'.

Now, after a lawsuit, the Florence labor court has reinstated the employee in the workplace and sentenced Unicoop to pay her 12 months' wages.



The story was made known by the USB base union, which reconstructs it in a press release. Faced with a customer's request for two shrimps for allergy tests, explains the basic abbreviation, "the worker closes them in an envelope, writing on them with a pen 'for allergy test', without pricing the goods. passed on the orders of the old department head ", however" the scale almost does not detect the weight "of the shrimps and on this" a test will then be made later ". Of the fact "the management of the Coop supermarket in via Carlo Del Prete becomes aware and the worker is put on the cross, up to the dismissal that will be communicated to the employee on Christmas Eve 2019".



The saleswoman remains at home without a job, alone with two small daughters, amidst the disbelief of the colleagues who turn to the USB code, and the dismissal is challenged. There is a trial and now the sentence of judge Vincenzo Nuvoli orders Unicoop to reinstate the sales assistant. Usb underlines that the judge's decision renders "dignity and respect" to the worker, "dignity for her daughters and for herself" and points out that the judge is the same one who at the time "had condemned Unicoop Firenze for the new company regulation inherent to the dressing and undressing procedure, the so-called 'time suit' ", regarding having to consider the time count necessary for this operation in the working shift schedule.



The company: "There was the just cause "


"With regard to the worker of the store in via Carlo del Prete in Florence fired for just cause, it is regrettable to note the false reconstruction that is made with respect to a dutiful reaction of the cooperative towards one of its employees who violated her fundamental working obligations, so much so do not make it possible to continue the employment relationship ". This was reported in a note released by Unicoop Firenze. "In this matter - continues the note -, among other things still open from a procedural point of view, the employee did not comply with the legislation on hygiene and food safety, inexplicably contravening the rules on food traceability and correct information to consumers, consequently putting the health and safety of customers at risk.The Cooperative has dutifully intervened to guarantee one of the values ​​placed at the foundation of its mission, namely the protection of the health and safety of consumers, members and customers who daily recognize in Unicoop Firenze a guarantee of seriousness, transparency and quality, considering therefore no longer reliable. such worker ".