Peter Gillis has to pay almost one tonne of overdue salary to employee Samir. Samir, who worked on Prinsenmeer as a catering manager and was often seen in the Reallife soap around the Gillis family, Massa is Kassa, went to court in February 2024 because he had never received a lot of overtime hours. He wanted Gillis to do that.
The judge agreed Samir in August last year and stipulated that Gillis indeed has to pay all 1,632 hours plus salary increase and interest. Exactly that amount amounts to 96,781.17 euros. Originally Samir wanted more than two tons of his old boss.
‘Everything goes to hell’
In February last year, Samir told the Court of Eindhoven about his situation. He made way too many hours, got too little money and never a day off, let alone vacation. He should always be ready for his boss Peter Gillis, worked from ten in the morning to an o’clock in the morning. Everything had to go to the boss by e -mail: “Then I will receive an answer from Mr. Gillis at three in the morning. Whether he says ‘well done’, or he says ‘everything goes to hell’,” Samir said.
Compensate in the winter
Gillis saw it differently. The bond between him and Samir was very good. Samir lived in the park and was given plenty of room to organize his own time. That is why all those overtime hours were not recorded, because that could be effortlessly compensated in the winter. According to the entrepreneur, it has been working on Prinsenmeer for years and that’s how it works for all staff. The judge sees it differently.
During the court case, Gillis still asked the judge to refrain from paying out. The most important argument was the financial situation of the Oostappen Group: all parks are currently standing still. The judge did not agree with that: the importance of the Oostappen Group does not outweigh Samir’s.
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