Possible outcome to theft at work

maggsy105

A supervisor who I am manager has been caught on CCTV taking £10 from the safe whilst cashing up on my day off. An investigation meeting is about to take place and what do you think the likely outcome would be? Never had any previous and has already stated needed the money for parking that day left in charge.

ohreally

maggsy105 wrote: »

An investigation meeting is about to take place and what do you think the likely outcome would be?

A disciplinary hearing be convened and an invite to attend issued.

As you are the manager surely you should know the procedure.

KayJay

Usually theft from employer is gross misconduct and would be dismissal. Mitigation would be if they left an IOU in the safe explaining why they were taking the cash and/or told another employee what they were doing. Cash for parking - usually a debit card or similar can be used so it's dodgy ground.
Did the employer tackle the situation right away the next day or did they give time for the employee to bring it to their attention? In other words was the employee caught out by not owning up?

TELLIT01

Theft of cash would normally be grounds for dismissal unless there are strong extenuating circumstances. Needing money for parking doesn't seem to meet that requirement.

maninthestreet

Do you have an HR department in your company?

DKLS

Fired if lucky
Fired and police called if unlucky.

Transformers

As the manager, you should be reviewing company policies and processes to ensure you are up to speed.

You could also look at the ACAS website for useful information.

What you shouldn't be doing is discussing the incident on a public forum - that is unprofessional and a breach of confidentiality - what if the 'accused' were to come here to post for advice only to see your post?

TELLIT01

Transformers wrote: »

As the manager, you should be reviewing company policies and processes to ensure you are up to speed.

You could also look at the ACAS website for useful information.

What you shouldn't be doing is discussing the incident on a public forum - that is unprofessional and a breach of confidentiality - what if the 'accused' were to come here to post for advice only to see your post?

It is highly unlikely, to put it mildly, that 'the accused' could claim unprofessionalism and breach of confidentiality from a post which gives no details of the who, the where or the when of the incident. I suspect many more than 1 individual has been caught by CCTV with their fingers in the metaphorical till.

Takeaway_Addict

Transformers wrote: »

As the manager, you should be reviewing company policies and processes to ensure you are up to speed.

You could also look at the ACAS website for useful information.

What you shouldn't be doing is discussing the incident on a public forum - that is unprofessional and a breach of confidentiality - what if the 'accused' were to come here to post for advice only to see your post?

What of it? There is no indication who it is and the board is not just for employees to ask for advice.

ohreally

What developed?