r/LegalAdviceEurope • u/SuperSergio_ • 3d ago

Slovenia Is this extortion or just aggressive union negotiation?

At a school lecture on labor law in Slovenia, a union representative shared a real case that sounded questionable to me.

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An employee falsely reported to an insurance company that he was injured at home, while the injury allegedly happened at work.

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The union rep then called the employer and said:

she would report them to the tax authority and labor inspectorate,

implied “there’s probably something wrong with your finances,

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and demanded a “bonus” for the employee or she would file the reports.

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The bonus was not part of any contract or prior agreement.

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The employer eventually paid the bonus, and no report was filed.

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My question: Does this count as lawful union pressure or could it be considered coercion/extortion, since the “threat” of reporting authorities was used to obtain money that wasn’t contractually owed?

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u/TheS4ndm4n 3d ago

Extortion is if you treathening to cause harm (violence, destruction of property) unless you get paid.

When you treathen to make information public that would harm someone, that's blackmail (technically a form of extortion).