An employee seizes the company's phone after terminating his services

The Abu Dhabi Court obligated the employee to pay 11,000 dirhams to the company.

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The Abu Dhabi Court for Family and Civil and Administrative Claims ruled that an employee must pay 11,000 dirhams to his previous employer, the value of a mobile phone and bills for the communications he made, which he obtained during his work in the company, and refused to return it after the end of the work relationship between them.

In the details, a company filed a lawsuit, in which it demanded to oblige a former employee of it to pay her an amount of 11,000 dirhams for the price of the phone and the value of the bills, in addition to 4,000 dirhams in compensation for the material and moral damages she sustained as a result of his refusal to pay, noting that the defendant was working She has, and during that period he received an “iPhone” with a monthly package, and after the end of the working relationship between them, he seized the phone and did not pay the bills, and he was convicted under a penal ruling.

The court stated in the ruling’s rationale that what is legally prescribed in the text of Article 304 of the Civil Transactions Law is that the hand is what it took until it is paid, so whoever usurped another person’s money must return it to him in his condition in which he was at the time of the usurpation, noting that what is proven from reading the case papers and documents is that the defendant He was criminally convicted of the crime of dissipating an iPhone mobile phone owned by the plaintiff, according to the judgment issued against him in the criminal case.

The court indicated that the plaintiff company proved that the employee had obtained the phone, through a signed declaration on his part, in which he committed to pay the value of the monthly telecommunications package, and the court ruled to obligate the defendant to pay the complainant an amount of 11,000 dirhams, and oblige him to pay fees and expenses.

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