Car crash

hjb123

An advance of wages? yeah right

That'll be there way of saying this money is because of the damage.

As she was on company business at the time of the damage there is surely no way they can take money off her?

Has she got a copy of her contract? If so have a look at it.

How long did she work for the company?

Another thing to look out for is if she is the registered keeper of the vehicle - the registered keeper and the owner are different, her company will own the vehicle but they may have her name as the registered keeper.

If I remember rightly employers are unable to make deductions from the wages without your written consent.

Beddie

A firm I used to work for would take £250 for any damage done to a company car, whether the damage happened during company business or not. They said it was the excess on the insurance policy. Quite a big company too.

rrwfotr

Hi I would take the company to the small cliams court further details are availble on:

https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/csmco2/index.jsp

I would do down the lines of non payment or wrongfull deduction of wage etc.. It won't cost her that much and she will be able to get her money back.

canny_yorkshireman_2

I am afraid to say that the company is right and not breaking any law or being fraudlent. She should have been told of this on her induction when she joined the company or will have been given a pack with terms and conditions of employment. A lot of companiies now have 3rd party insurance to reduce the annual premium and excess payments can be recovered in this way should it prove to be the employee's fault. I work for a fairly large organisation that had this policy untill recently so soz if this is bad news. The only way I can think that this could be challenged is if the employee was not made aware of the charge for at fault claims or proof that no induction pack was given on take up of employment.

topsales

Thanks for your reply - she has now been in touch with a solicitor who has advised her to write to the company re the deductions - if this brings no joy she will then take them to a tribunal. She was givne no info about the possibility of this in her induction/terms of employment so I doubt that the company was right.