He joined the company in 2011, worked dedicatedly and was committed, in July 2012, at the chairman of the company's birthday, he decided to reward people for hardwork. First, he promised a Gardner who has worked with him for 26 years a house, secondly, the manager of his company, a house and a brand new car, and thirdly, the personal assistant a car. Everyone present at the occasion were happy and thanked the chairman and also congratulated the recipients. The event has about 20 people in attendance.

THE ISSUE

The manager of the company who was supposed to be a beneficiary of a house and also a brand new car was already in possession of a car which was initially either given to her as a gift or official car by the chairman two years before the event. This was the car she was supposed to transfer to the third beneficiary of reward from the chairman(the personal assistant). The car was in her name, she did the transfer to the Personal assistant as directed by the chairman.

The manager also got her own new car which also registered in her name acoording to the gift promised her. Neither the Gardner nor the manager got the houses that was promised to them.

After that event, the chairman has not been responsible for fueling, service and repairs of any of this cars.
4 years after, the personal assistant had to resign from the job because of consistent work related issues with the chairman, the manager too said she was resigning as she was going to get married and would be relocating.

The chairman furiously, started asking for the car he gave to the Personal assistant four years ago, which he has not been responsible for, the car was also registered in the Personal assistant name since the transfer from the manager.

THE QUESTION

Should the personal assistant give up the car? and why?

What justification does the chairman have to recall the gifts.

Thank you for your candid responses.

The personal assistant should not give back the car. Its his car. All documents says so.Also the chairman has no right recalling gifts. A GIFT is a GIFT.

There was this lady that was given an official car with problems. The lady spent a lot fixing, fueling, maintaining and making the car sound for official duties. She started having issues with the owner of the company after 5years of dedicated service, she was being owed 4 months salary. She eventually resigned due to frustration.

2 weeks later. The company told her to return the car before she could get paid her salary. She was confused knowing fully well she might not get her salary if she returned it.

She got all the receipts of servicing,fuelling,all items bought to fix the car in good shape (she's the record keeping type). she even added and backdated receipts as advised by her lawyer.

She did her calculations, and her lawyer sent a mail to the company stating the total amount she was beign owed (4months salary + expenses on the car) which was way above the car's value.

The company had to reply, telling her to keep the car .

WTF did I just write all that.

FTC

If I read well......... The bone of contention isn't the official car but the gift...... What if it was a monetary gift, would the Chairman demand for a refund? Or if he actually built the house in the beneficiary' s name....... That is always the problem with those employers . They always want to milk out the best outta their employees.