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Employer Wants Me To Pay $3,500 For Accidentally Backing Into A Garage Door.

UPDATE: Our employee handbook says employees are liable for any company property damage so it’s within their rights. They want me to pay for all of the door, as they didn’t put it through insurance. Their reasoning is if they put the door through it would have been a $2500 deductible, and not worth it since the cost was $3500. Instead they’re having me pay for the door out of pocket and having the total only be $3500 instead of $5,000 for both.

I work at a dealership, and back in May I got done washing one of the owner’s cars and went to back it out of the shop. I accidentally hit the bottom of the garage door as it was closing, the door got bent and one of the door’s windows cracked, the car had a shattered rear window and a dented tailgate, with scratches where the door scraped. I did the drug test procedure and passed, then didn’t hear anything until today. They want me to pay $3,500 over time by taking a minimum of $100 out of my paycheck each pay period. This seems a bit fishy to me because I know they went through insurance for both the door and the car, but the $3,500 estimate is only for the door. I think the car went through insurance. Any advice? Kind of stuck on what to do currently.

Location: Wisconsin

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