The Kaohsiung District Court has rejected the final appeal of a cram school owner who sued a former employee for taking home water from the company’s cooler.
The proprietor of the Kaohsiung franchise of the Police Cram School, surnamed Yang (楊), had been in litigation with the former employee, a woman surnamed Tsai (蔡), for several years, the court said in its verdict on Aug. 23.
Tsai and the school parted ways in 2020 amid a labor dispute that ended with a NT$43,000 settlement, the court said.
Yang later filed a criminal complaint against Tsai, accusing her of stealing 249 600ml water bottles from the company’s cooler during her year-long employment at the school, it said.
Yang claimed that Tsai stole water worth NT$24,900 from the company and submitted surveillance footage that he said proved her crimes to prosecutors, the court said.
After the prosecutors dismissed his claim, Yang filed several civil lawsuits against Tsai, losing the first two cases, it said.
The Kaohsiung District Court, litigating the third case Yang filed, said he did not present evidence that employees had been notified that they were under certain circumstances not allowed to take water from the cooler, it said.
Tsai told the court that she took water bottles from the cooler home no more then twice per week and that she had sought permission to do so beforehand, it said.
Tsai suspected that Yang filed the lawsuits in retaliation for the labor dispute, it said.
Citing witness testimony and the footage Yang provided, the court said it was unlikely that he was unaware of Tsai taking water home while she was employed and could have asked her to stop doing so.
The court upheld the earlier rulings, which rewarded no damages to Yang, saying that he may not file another appeal.
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