Money Moral Dilemma: Should we ask the cleaner to pay for a new vacuum?

trashedboy

If you employ them and charge them then this would be considered an 'illegal deduction of earnings'. You could be taken to an employment tribunal and would lose without much effort on their part due to the amount of case law out there.
If you believe it was negligence on their part then you can follow statutory diciplinary procedures against your employee.
TBH, that you are asking the question in the first place shows at best a degree of broken trust and that your relationship is not in a good place.

marich

So please tell us how we can contact you with a real dilemma ...

Mankysteve

Buy a new one get a henry indestructible things.

pendragon_arther

peachyprice wrote: »

Surely this can't be the first 'MSE Dilemma' you've come across? They do it all the time, blantant fake scenarios that people [STRIKE]waste[/STRIKE] take their time replying to.

I know what you mean....

Lorian

peachyprice wrote: »

Surely this can't be the first 'MSE Dilemma' you've come across? They do it all the time, blantant fake scenarios that people [STRIKE]waste[/STRIKE] take their time replying to.

It was only renamed yesterday to add "Money Moral Dilemma" to the title.

meknowalot-51

The hoover that your employee was using broke so as the employer YOU replace it,insurance?If on the otherhand you feel it was careless or a deliberate act then you replace the employee.If the machine i operate at work broke then my employer would have it fixed,they wouldn't ask me to pay for it.From what your saying you would expect me to pay up,are you sure?The cleaner i use at home does a pretty good job most of the time and quite often needs some guidance,especially in the kitchen which i feel is a good thing,once she did threaten me with divorce.Anyway as for you,get a new hoover or cleaner and don't ask her to pay as you could end up being sued.

Senjo

How cruel to even think of charging the cleaner. You have enough money to afford a cleaner and he/she is probably on minimum wage. I'm sure the cleaner didn't break it on purpose, so stop being so uncharitable and buy a new one yourself.

Kazykazbar

Gillian37650 wrote: »

I am a cleaner and recently while I was cleaning a shaving mirror it broke where the wall attachment was rusty and degraded. We were asked if our insurance covered this and if not to replace it (all £5.99 of it) we replaced it out of our own pocket as insurance excess too much and it was in our opinion due to degradation of material due to rust and age. We didn't quibble as we need to keep the job really. (Well paid young couples house) but we are peeved!

quite rightly so

BucksLady

Count yourself lucky that this is all you have to worry about

monalot

If it's hard to tell exactly how it happened,how can you blame the cleaner, you nasty person, if I was your cleaner youd be looking for a new one.

I just cant believe your serious!