In NYS can an employee be forced to be financially liable for a mistake?

I work for a company that takes wagers for Horse racing. If a customer refuses to pay for a incorrect ticket, we can do a forced cancel. That means that the company takes the ticket, and eats the wager amount. (depending on the bet, it can reach into the hundreds or thousands) New policy today says that we no longer can do a force cancel and we (the employee) are finacially liable to cover the cost of incorrect tickets. Is there any legal recourse? Am i expected to cover a $100-$1000 bet if the customer "forgets his wallet?" *Note, we do have regular scammers who will wait till the last minute to wager, then do not have cash, and use their "credit." (aka word) Depending on the outcome, you may or may not see them for months. Degenerate gamblers...

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I am going to say that they certainly cant do this, unless there is a company policy against taking these bets on credit that turn out bad. Then you the employee are at fault. My guess is that there is a policy against taking these "credit" bets, but is not in-forced because they want the extra bet money, but they also want them you to be liable for bad credits. Don't take these bets any longer unless the company wants to cover them, you certainly don't want to make yourself liable to cover the bets of gamblers.


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