Providing nanny/au pair with contract mobile phone.

[Strix]

Does anyone provide their nanny with a contract phone? If so, what do you write into your contract, if anything, about the event of loss, etc.

Basically, I have worked out that Au Pair could have a really nice phone on contract for only a little more than what I currently pay for her pay as you go. So, I have ordered a phone and now I am amending contract to say who is responsible for what.

Does anyone have any contract wording I could pinch??

I am paying for the monthly contract and insuring the phone. If we have to make a claim I want her to pay half of excess and I want her to be responsible for anything over the monthly allowance (600 min, 500 MB).

I have a general term covering loss or damage to property and cars which states that I will cover the cost, unless in my opinion the nanny was negligent by not reasonably protecting the property in question.

That's it? I've written like half a page outlining what I will cover and what she will cover.

I like Squiffy's solution best. Long lists of hypothetical situations in a contract don't work well IME.

If your au pair has a bank account why you could transfer the phone over into her own name - so she would take responsibility for her own excess useage..

If she doesn't have a bank account then you can always to contact the mobile operator and ask them to put a cap on the number so it can only be used up to the capped level. Not sure if all the networks do that but we did that for a phone before on O2.

Yep, that's it. But I certainly make up for it with my list of gross negligence examples......