Can we stop employees from having direct contact?

Smodlet

Comms69 wrote: »

Sacking someone for becoming pregnant could be a 'genuine oversight'...


Yes potentially there is a legal claim. (and quite right too - no offence)

Dontcha mean "no defence" Comms?

undercoverirish wrote: »

I don!!!8217;t mean to condone their behaviour, I certainly don!!!8217;t want to appear that way. We are running a professional business here (trying anyway).

But this was a genuine oversight on my part. We should have looked into more before we took action.

An "oversight" is forgetting to action someone's leave request. What you did redefines unprofessional imho and, with every word you write, underlines how archaic and sexist your attitudes are. You don't take any action, ever, without first investigating thoroughly!

undercoverirish

As she!!!8217;s complained she obviously is annoyed but she must want to work this out.

I will wait and speak to HR before responding to her.

This is definitely not a troll thread. I wish it was as my weekend would be looking a hell of a lot better.

suki1964

fairy_lights wrote: »

This has GOT to be a troll thread. There's no way this can be real.

I know but come on, we haven't had such a juicy thread in ages

fairy_lights

undercoverirish wrote: »

This is definitely not a troll thread. I wish it was as my weekend would be looking a hell of a lot better.

And as of Monday you're going to be enrolling yourself on some sort of HR course, right?

BorisThomson

undercoverirish wrote: »

It was a genuine mistake. I would like to be able to aplogise and put this right.

But you're not going to do anything until you've got some proper advice, yes?

I am concerned that your way of ensuring this never happens again will be not to employ any women again. You do understand that's not the answer?

(And this thread is like a game of diversity bingo, I think we've got the full house of clich!s!)

getmore4less

undercoverirish wrote: »

We have an issue with an employee at work that I would like some advice on.

We have advised an employee that she can only have direct contact with her colleagues if they invite her to do so but she is claiming that this isn't fair. Can anyone advise if we can stop colleagues having direct contact?

No you can't.

Those that are getting contacted need to ignore/block/grievance

If there is inappropriate behaviour relating to the workplace invoke grievance and disciplinary procedures.

undercoverirish

I agree that perhaps the practices we use aren!!!8217;t water right so maybe an HR course wouldn!!!8217;t be a bad idea. We haven!!!8217;t had an issue like this before - any issues have always worked themselves out. We!!!8217;re only 5 years old as a business and most of the team were with us from the start.

Smodlet

fairy_lights wrote: »

And as of Monday you're going to be enrolling yourself on some sort of HR course, right?

But, but that would cost money, fairylights. :eek:

undercoverirish

We do try to do things right and keep the staff happy, and we do try to do it on a budget. However I don!!!8217;t want to end up fighting a legal battle either over something I should have done but didn!!!8217;t do.

Malthusian

undercoverirish wrote: »

It was a genuine mistake. I would like to be able to aplogise and put this right.

You're perfectly capable of doing the first part. Have you?

(After taking proper advice, of course)