Status: DRAFT

Damage to Company Property

• The company provides us all with equipment that we can use, take home, etc.

• It’s possible that something gets damaged. There are 3 circumstances to distinguish:

  1. It malfunctions though no fault of the user.

  2. The user breaks it, an accident happens, it gets stolen, etc. For example: dog jumps on the laptop, or you spill a drink on it.

  3. The user is reckless with the device and uses it in a way which is obviously going to cause damage. Or causes intentional damage. This is not a case that we expect to happen, but it’s here for completeness sake, and also to delineate case 2 above. For example: you use your laptop as an oven tray (negligent misuse), or you throw your company phone out of the window (intentional damage).

It malfunctions on it’s own (case 1)

1. Claim against our insurance.

2. If insurance doesn’t, or doesn’t fully, cover the expense, whatever cost is left is borne 100% by the company.

Legit Breakage (case 2)

1. Claim against our insurance.

2. If insurance doesn’t, or doesn’t fully, cover the expense, whatever cost is left is borne 70% by the company and 30% by the employee who was responsible for the device at the time.

Negligent Misuse or Intentional Damage (case 3)

1. Claim against our insurance.

2. If insurance doesn’t, or doesn’t fully, cover the expense, whatever cost is left is borne 100% by the employee who was responsible for the device at the time.

Note on cost to company:

VAT (aka USt, PDV, VAT) isn’t a cost to the company, so any leftover costs to be borne by the employee would be exclusive of VAT.