"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Your policies and procedures are there to cover your ass in the case of termination, not the employees. Once a policy is in place and in the handbook, you can write up your employees for infraction of said policy. They violate policy, you write them up for it. They keep doing it then you fire em. You have documentation to show in the unemployment hearing how they violated company policy X amount of times along with written documentation where they were informed of said policy, told that if they did it again, termination. Their signature on the bottom of the write up report is enough for any magistrate to deny the claim. Show up at an unemployment hearing without documentation of any kind (verbal don't count in court) and you're F'ed. If you need an employee manual, plenty of basic ones are available online that will get you going. Then you just amend is as you go.
is I put it in THEIR words. For example.
What has been said above is good stuff. I let my guys know up front that I dont fire people. People fire themselves. We have rules and they are to be followed.
Did you have a talk with them or did they just catch the vibe/hint?Murphy37
Quote from: Underbase37 on June 11, 2014, 09:18:03 AMDid you have a talk with them or did they just catch the vibe/hint?Murphy37Just the uncomfortable staring I did on Friday seemed to work for now. But I've still got the cell phone policy notice that I will put in their next paycheck just to reinforce it.I started on an employee handbook a year or so ago and stopped and then forgot about it. I have to find it on my old hard drive and finish it. It was the generic version where you go in and customize it to your business.
Quote from: JBLUE on June 10, 2014, 08:04:57 PMWhat has been said above is good stuff. I let my guys know up front that I dont fire people. People fire themselves. We have rules and they are to be followed.I am stealing this. Said perfectly.