DUBAI// An Indian salesman has been fined Dh1,000 for slandering the jewellery company he worked for in a television interview.
The Dubai Court of Misdemeanours heard that P A, 28, made a series of damaging allegations against his former employer during an interview with the Indian Reuters news channel.
In court, he denied threatening the manager of the jewellery company to distort his reputation and also insulting him and the company.
P A told the interviewer the company did not pay their staff, would seize the passports of all employees and threaten them if they refused to hand them over. He also alleged that the accommodation provided was unclean, small and lacked shower facilities.
Court records showed that during the TV interview, P A said: “The management deducted four days from my salary because I was sick for two days and wasn’t able to come to work.”
The manager of the company D L, 42, from India, said that P A had shown a picture of one of his gold shops during the TV report.
“He also said that the gold we sell was scrap and its weight was manipulated,” D L said.
D L said that he had fired P A for a series of administrative errors. Soon after, P A told one of his colleagues he would cause trouble for the company because he was owed Dh25,000 in back pay.
“He caused us harm when he spoke badly about us on TV. We have many shops and we have been in this business for so long and our reputation is very good,” D L said.
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