Employee - Resignation Help

littlespectacles

Please remove this thread as it is no longer relevant.

DCFC79

If you have no address for her then I think you just need to chalk it up to experience. Learn from it.

Takeaway_Addict

Hi All,

Sorry if this is the wrong option to post this under.

I am looking for a bit of advice regarding an employee of mine, I run a small recruitment consultancy of around 3 consultants plus me.

One of my members of staff who has been with me for under 3 months has resigned recently with immediate effect, the problem is it turns out she hasn't been doing any work that she said she had.

She has said for the last two months that she had generated x amount of sales for the company and these would be coming in at the end of December..... Now we only pay commission on invoices that go through so she hasn't been rewarded for them only received her normal basic salary.

I know I have been completely stupid and never asked for evidence and put a lot of trsut in her( we all work from home)

Is there anyway I can claw back her salary I have paid her ? Like I said she hasn't been paid any bonus so she hasn't cheated me in that way but it seems awful that I have paid her salary for work that hasn't been done.

Do I just need to bite the bullet and accept that it was my mistake not asking for evidence and learn from it? or is there a way to claw back the salary that technically she wasn't entitled too as she didn't do the work etc etc.

She has since moved from her property abroad supposedly so I don't even have an address for her anymore.

In such a pickle Any advice would be great !


If she turned up for work then you have no hope, unless you could prove she hadn't.

Not worth the time or hassle and suggest next time you perhaps do checks earlier on their progress?

Also, you've been lucky to have only paid 3 months IMO

McKneff

Of course you cant claim back her salary.
You employed her, you have to pay her whether she did any work or not.

Thank your lucky stars she resigned with immediate effect, you may well have paid her another months basic salary for doing nothing and then finding out....

Suck it up....

agrinnall

Perhaps you could use your recruit consultancy to recruit someone who knows how to run a business, because it sounds like you need a lot of help.

asajj

There is a reason why managers check on especially newcomers work. Take it as a lesson.