Slander?

[KRUSTYMAN]

My partner works as a store manager for a well known charity and works very hard for the charity even arranging fund raising evenings in her spare time. The majority of the staff she takes on are young adults with health problems, aspergers etc who would be missed or forgotten in society. She has done so well in building their confidence they often leave her employment completely different people. However, her area manager doesn't like her - I don't know why maybe he doesn't like the way people love her - whatever. He continually nit picks and it does get her down. Today he sent her an email saying that the till was down £10 one day last week - because of donations etc and maybe the staff she employs I really don't know - and he wanted to know if this was just a clerical problem or something more 'sinister'. I guess my main concern is 'is this a form of slander'? What else could he mean by 'sinister'?

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[EDDIE51]

Slander is written Liable is spoken, but what was said comes nowhere near being liable as he did not actually name anyone and make an accusation that could be proved wrong.
The area manager should know better than to suggest a sinister motive for what is almost certainly a simple mistake , his/her management skills are sadly lacking in basic common sense

[wolf63]

Apart from the legal side of it - £10 out in the till is not really all that bad. Our till is usually out by a couple of pounds per day. We were out £8,000 once - not sure how it happened but it was a mistake.

There should be some sort of financial guide that your partner has access to.

[starone]

Decimal points in the wrong place, wolf, obviously.

[tonywiltshire]

As eddie says slander is a defamatory statement made by such means as words or gestures (not in a permanent form). In English law a distinction is made between defamation in permanent form (libel) and non-permanent form (slander) I understand this distinction is not made in Scotland.
In English law the basis of the tort is injury to reputation so it must be shown that the statement was communicated to someone other than the person defamed as well as injury to reputation.

[wolf63]

With some of the volunteers in our shop anything is possible.

I am useless on the till - which is good because I hate using it.