If she left too much out of the safe and the company lost an extra few thousand dollars because she didn’t follow policy, I think that opens her up to discipline.
I don’t think you can legally demand someone reimburse the funds. You can fire them, but you can’t do it because they refuse or can’t pay the funds back.
The owner may have realized his let her go for an illegitimate reason, and want to bring her back on board to avoid litigation.
When your employees get a weapon shoved in their face by some deranged violent individual you don’t turn around and fire them because your pissed about losing some dollars. That’s total bull sh*t.
Wowza
What she ought to do for facing down the barrel of a gun by some armed lunatic and then getting fired, is to sue these SOB’s for every type of physical and mental stress known in the medical world. Then sue these SOB’s for wrongful termination which added to even more stress.