Employer charging my salary for company phone

[mickor7]

Hi all,

it happened that I went to US, roaming was active and now the sim card have been charged for 900 eur. The phone I'm using is a company phone.
I didn't know about the high tariff outside Europe but apparently HR sent an email to warn employees.

In the contract I have it's stated I can use the phone till a max of 100 eur / month

"The company provides a company mobile phone to the Employee that he might use also for private purpose. He gets a maximum budget of 100 eur / month to use."

This is the only point mentioned in my contract.
What I want to ask is if the Company I'm working for is now allowed to keep 800 eur from my salary.

Thanks
Mick

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Re: Employer charging my salary for company phone

Unfortunately, unless you can prove the phone was preset to roaming when the phone was supplied to you, and can successfully appeal responsibility for such, then I am afraid they are entitled to recover those costs.

However, they are only entitled to deduct it from your salary with your agreement, and with that at only 10% of the amount per pay period.