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Question: What should i do when my employee breaks more than $200 worth of wine glasses?

(Posted by: James on 2010-07-28 19:40:52)

One of my employee broke more than $200 worth of wine and martini glass what should i do?

Posted by: BN on 2010-07-28, 19:56:26

Tell him to pay for them if he doesn't doc his pay.

Posted by: rkbtoo on 2010-07-28, 19:41:44

Accidents happen its part of the cost of doing business

Posted by: CoD4LiFe on 2010-07-28, 19:43:00

If you're a big business then you should let him go with a warning if by accident. If it's a very small business and he was being negligent, give him another job.

Posted by: Stush on 2010-07-28, 19:54:42

Did you ask them to break them? Whats the context?

Posted by: midnight on 2010-07-28, 20:14:18

Well, it begs the question if he or she did it on purpose. If this was a malicious act, then I think you as the employer would be in your rights to require that they repay it in full. And that would also be grounds for removal. If it was not intentional (an accident) or if the employee did something that was negligent (placing the glasses in a precarious location that led to the breakage), then I think that a serious talk with the employee explaining that you would expect him or her to take responsibility for their accident and make a contribution of half the cost to help you re-coup the loss. If it was truely an accident, then the employer's goal would be only to regain the cost of the glasses, not to hurt the employee. I understand that many service workers do not make a whole lot and might not be able to pay $200. all at once. So perhaps a payment plan of $20. at a time would be a gentlemanly/ gentlewomanly way of handling the problem. I hope this helps.

Posted by: Mickey H on 2010-07-28, 20:32:58

Unfortunately in this industry things get broken. Generally the rule of thumb would be to explain to the employee that this was unexceptable and if it happened again he would be seriously disciplined (IE. sacked and charged) These sort of things should be written off as a business cost unless it is constant and/ or malicious.