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Lemac
My question involves labor and employment law for the state of: FL
Hello. My brother got terminated from Walgreens earlier this month. Basically he accidentally left his cash drawer open, (it didn't latch when he tried to shut it) and coincidentally a lady noticed it and took about $150 from it I believe. He told me it was not planned and I believe him, he's not that stupid to risk his job for $150 but we also understand that he had to get terminated for this. They even were supposed to investigate whether he had something to do with it but I guess they couldn't come up with anything. When the loss prevention people came in they asked him a bunch of questions before telling him about the cash register incident. They asked him if he ever took anything from the store without paying for it and he admitted to taking a candy bar or bag of chips from time to time.
Now, we received a letter from an attorney representing Walgreens asking to settle for $200. We called and they say it's for the stuff he admitted to taking, not the cash register thing. My question is, can they really ask for a random amount of money for stuff that they have no proof he took other than what he told them? What happens if we refuse to pay it. Is the letter just to scare him into paying something?