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Don’t pay a labour lawyer to pick up the pieces
Labour Bulletin | 25 March, 2010 | Hot Topics:
Dear Reader
Welcome to your Labour Bulletin.
I hope your short week has been productive...I know it’s great having a day off (or quite a few in April), but I do find it leaves me scrabbling for time to do everything I need to.
It’s times like this that we can drop the ball on important issues. Stress and time pressure take their toll and this can mean someone else is left to pick up the pieces. When it comes to employee mistakes...this normally means an expensive labour lawyer!
Avoid this mistake so many employers make
I had a quick catch-up with one of our consultants the other day, and she said that her large firm spends countless hours fixing employer mistakes. The worst thing is, these employers spend thousands for others to get them out of situations they could so easily have avoided in the first place!
A prime example of this is:
When an employer disciplines inconsistently
If two employees are guilty of similar misconduct in similar ways, you must be consistent when you discipline. This is whether or not the one employee’s misconduct occurred in the past.
Avoid these 3 types of inconsistency
- Don’t condone an employee’s conduct in one instance and then discipline him when he commits the same misconduct later on.
- Don’t dismiss an employee for an offence when, in the past or as a matter of practice, you haven’t dismissed and/or have failed to discipline other employees for the same offence.
- Don’t impose different disciplinary sanction on two employees who commit the same or similar offence at the same time
You must measure each employee by the same standards and treat cases that are alike the same.
Remember: This principle applies only to employees who’ve committed and been found guilty of the same offence.
I hope this goes a little way to making employee management something you don’t have to stress about. And here’s another invaluable tool to save you time and stress! I suggest you get your hands on it today.
Until next week
Sarah-Jane Bosch
Managing Editor:
Labour Law for Managers Practical Handbook
Practical Guide to Human Resources Management
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Editors note
Michelle Govender
Labour Bulletin Editor
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