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Ruling: In the case of a disagreement between a worker and an employer as to whether the worker has been paid, the worker has the upper hand (Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 89:2). However, says the Aruch Hashulchan (CM 89:5), if the dispute is not about being paid but about the quality of the work, we follow the regular rule that the burden of proof is on the one who wants to extract money.
On the other hand, the Rashba applies to similar cases the idea that when one grants reliability to his counterpart, this is binding even when he stops believing him. Piskei Din Yerushalayim VIII, p. 198 says, based on this, that although initially the employer can change his mind, once the work began based on the promise of reliability, the agreement is binding.
The question is whether there was such an agreement here. While the contract pl sent included a provision that pay would be based on reported hours, an unsigned contract is not binding, even if its content was known to both parties and not rejected. One cannot prove from the fact that def paid for one month along the lines spelled out in the contract that the contract had been accepted as a condition for the work. While it was agreed orally that pl would be paid by the hour, and it is clear that only pl could report how many hours were put in, that does not mean that def gave credibility to pl’s report even in a case in which def doubted its veracity. However, since pl reported that they worked on putting together lists of grant-giving foundations and def accepted sufficiently the explanation of why it was reasonable to pay for that month, this was mechila of the right to reject that work as uncalled for. See Shulchan Aruch, Choshen Mishpat 126:13 and Aruch Hashulchan ad loc. 15, who posit that we do not easily enable one who paid to say that he was mistaken in doing so.
P'ninat Mishpat (835)
Various Rabbis
557 - Holding Guarantors to their Commitment? – part III
558 - How Much Acceptable Work Did the Worker Do? – part I
559 - Believing the Worker about What Work he Did – part II
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P'ninat Mishpat P'ninat Mishpat: Agricultural Water Rights – part II
based on ruling 84122 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
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based on ruling 84093 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
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Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
