Who gets charged for call forwarding of collect calls?

Question

My coworker was forwarding calls from the business phone at my job to her cell phone that were from her inmate boyfriend. She did not have permission to do so, who gets charged on the bill for the calls and are there any legal consequences.

Answer 1

Ofcourse there would be legal consequences if the company finds and reports.

and charges for forwarding the calls would be on the business line of the company.

Answer 2

It's likely that your employer's phone bill will be billed for both the incoming collect call and for the outgoing call to her cellphone.

Most likely the person responsible for forwarding the calls or who allowed them to be forwarded would be subject to termination.  Many companies have written policies regarding the use of the company's telephones and most would frown on accepting personal collect calls.

The best course of action would be to come forward to management and explain the circumstances and cease the activity.

Answer 3

dam good question...

i would have thought the operator would know its forwarded call and not put it thru,, but then again.. who knows...

someone on the final end has to agree to accept it...

Answer 4

The business phone will be charged, because it is the phone that is handling the forwarding.

Answer 5

The person who "accepted the collect call" is billed for the call.  Whatever the rate is for the telephone, or cell, that accepted the collect call is billed at the collect call rate.  The person who owns the cell, or telephone accepting the collect call will receive the charges on their next phone bill.

The telephone that is "forwarding" the call is billed at the "call forwarding" rate, determined by the phone package subscribed to.  If the package includes call forwarding, then there is no extra forwarding charge.  If forwarding is a pay-per-use feature, then it is probably being charged at the normal termination rate outlined by the forwarding telephones' contract.

Ultimately, any person "accepting" a collect call is agreeing to pay collect call charges.

The forwarding phone is only charged for the forwarding feature.

Any legal consequences are at the discretion of the company management that owns the forwarding telephone system.  That is only a matter of company policy and whether they value the employee or not.  If they value the employee, they may let it go with a warning.  If they are just looking for an excuse to terminate someone, then they may now have a reason.  But, any policy about telephone usage and charges must be clearly outlined in company policy manual.  And, it must be clearly demonstrated that the employee knowingly disregarded company policy.

Answer 6

The person who accepted it.