Sackable offence??

JoRoss

Hi

A member of staff decided to go home halfway through her shift as a waitress telling me she was hot and smelled!!

Is this a sackable offence?

Many thanks

MissSarah1972

JoRoss wrote: »

Hi

A member of staff decided to go home halfway through her shift as a waitress telling me she was hot and smelled!!

Is this a sackable offence?

Many thanks

Was she ill? Did you say she could go?

1940sGal

JoRoss wrote: »

Hi

A member of staff decided to go home halfway through her shift as a waitress telling me she was hot and smelled!!

Is this a sackable offence?

Many thanks

Not sure if that in itself is sackable but it's a pathetic excuse. She works as a waitress, it's summer and (i assume) she's around food. Go figure she'll get hot and it will 'smell'. She certainly doesn't sound very reliable.

How long has she worked there?

ohreally

1940sGal wrote: »

Go figure she'll get hot and it will 'smell'.

What is this "it"?

1940sGal

ohreally wrote: »

What is this "it"?

The environment in general. Don't get on a high horse, i didn't mean the person who left

JoRoss

Hi.

I had no choice, she "told" me she was going home!!

She has worked for me for 2 months.

It was not the environment that smelled it was her.

I am not going to sack her yet, she is going to be told that of it happens again it will be a disciplinary.

However I want to be able to tell her that what she did is a sackable offence but dont want to get it wrong.!!

thank you

marybelle01

Since she's only been there two months, for the next 22 months pretty much anything is a sackable offence - she can't claim unfair dismissal!

1940sGal

JoRoss wrote: »

It was not the environment that smelled it was her.

haha but at least she knows it! I've met countless who don't! :rotfl:

dseventy

JoRoss wrote: »

Hi.

I had no choice, she "told" me she was going home!!

She has worked for me for 2 months.

It was not the environment that smelled it was her.

I am not going to sack her yet, she is going to be told that of it happens again it will be a disciplinary.

However I want to be able to tell her that what she did is a sackable offence but dont want to get it wrong.!!

thank you

If she has worked there for just 2 months you can sack for any reason (as long as its not discriminatory like race/religion etc) or not give her a reason at all.

I would point this out to her, tell if it happens again she is gone. Lots of unemployed people wanting jobs out there.

D70

JoRoss

She has now been spoken to and for some reason she feels that telling me she had a shaving rash and that it was bleeding when she got home is supposed to change things.

She wasnt happy when I reminded her what she said when she left "I smell, do you want a sniff"!!!

She still had attitude and walked away for me.

I cant cut my nose off at the moment as some big functions coming up, but she wont last long!!

Thank you for your advice

MissSarah1972

JoRoss wrote: »

Hi.

I had no choice, she "told" me she was going home!!

She has worked for me for 2 months.

It was not the environment that smelled it was her.

I am not going to sack her yet, she is going to be told that of it happens again it will be a disciplinary.

However I want to be able to tell her that what she did is a sackable offence but dont want to get it wrong.!!

thank you

It can be seen as gross miscoonduct and you can sack her or issue a final written warning