My son in law has been working as a diesel mechanic at XXXXMs thru a temp agency for roughly 3 weeks now. Yesterday something happened at the job site and he accidentally dropped a dolly and bent the legs. It was not intentional, no messing around, purely accidental. When he got to work today they fired him. Being that he's still in the probationary period, I know they can fire you for just about anything, so it's not worth fighting that but my issue is that they are charging him $200 to fix the legs of this dolly!! It will cost them just over $400 I guess but he was told the max they can charge someone is $200. Is this legal? If he was never told that he would be held responsible for broken tools? I could understand if it was due to negligence or horseplay but it wasn't. It's not worth hiring a lawyer in this case, as XXXXMs has the money to take this as far as it needs to go, but I am curious as to the legality of it all. TIA!
Edited to add that we are in Wisconsin.
Edited to add that we are in Wisconsin.