Is my company allowed to force me to pay their deductive after I accidentally reversed into a car with company golf cart?
Hey everybody! Here’s the tea:
So I work in security and I have to drive a golf cart around the parking garage in order to do my patrols every hour. Well today when I was about to drive off in the golf cart, I accidentally reversed into a vehicle that I didn’t see coming through and made a small dent into the car. For the past few months me and my coworker been doing a report about the golf cart headlights not working, the light on top of the golf cart is broken, the tires worn out and it’s just not safe to drive but we still HAVE to drive it. But nobody from my job has fixed it. I know for a fact I wouldn’t have ever reversed into somebody if the light on top of the golf cart was working because it’s bright enough for cars and people to know it’s security driving around. Recently, me and my coworker stopped making reports about the golf carts issues because our manager told us to, which was weird. I’ve never been in wrecks or have ever done anything reckless. Now they are trying to make me pay their deductible! I read the handbook and it never said anything about having to pay if an employee gets in a wreck with company vehicle. I called my manager to confirm this and he said “no, it’s not in the handbook but we still tell them to pay when they are at fault.” Is this a violation against OSHA?
What should I do?