Can we stop employees from having direct contact?

undercoverirish

Ok. I!!!8217;m going to chase up the HR company first thing Monday

Masomnia

undercoverirish wrote: »

Ok. I!!!8217;m going to chase up the HR company first thing Monday

I know what they'll say, which is 'God, they never come to you when the issue first arises, only when it all goes to sh*t and they've messed it up an they need help clearing it up, when if they'd got proper advice in the first place none of this would have happened.........'

Not to your face of course

Your mistake was in taking his word as gospel rather than doing a full investigation of what went on and getting a proper statement from him, then from her plus any witnesses and then coming to some kind of conclusion.

We all live and learn.

See what the company says, I think you need someone objective to look over all the details, paperwork (if any) and help you limit the damage.

Good luck.

seashore22

So this is all unfolding as you post and your company are ok with you posting about it on a public forum?

That's a right weird place that you work in op.

undercoverirish

Being the boss, I have the benefit of being able to sit on a public forum. I wasn!!!8217;t expecting it to unfold how it did, I thought t had already unfolded.

seashore22

undercoverirish wrote: »

Being the boss, I have the benefit of being able to sit on a public forum. I wasn!!!8217;t expecting it to unfold how it did, I thought t had already unfolded.

I'm surprised that you're the boss. You aren't coming across as a professional.

Smodlet

I am seriously beginning to wonder if the "lad" in question might not be the OP. In which case, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

undercoverirish

Why would you even think that??!

undercoverirish

I!!!8217;m cracking on as it!!!8217;s past my bed time.

I will keep you posted on the advice I get from the HR company on Monday.

Manxman_in_exile

undercoverirish wrote: »

She!!!8217;s pretty fiesty. But that!!!8217;s why we hired her. Because the lads are like they are, it takes quite a strong female I think to break that down and fit in. And I don!!!8217;t mean that in a discriminatory way. But they!!!8217;re quite lively so it takes someone tough to stand up to that.[/QUOTE


Fiesty? doesn't that mean that farts a lot! Sack the guy and keep her.

getmore4less

you need to take complaints by members of staff seriously and invoke procedures to deal with the issues.

undercoverirish wrote: »

We already issued the girl with disciplinary action that she had to cease contacting her colleagues directly unless they invited her to do so. But we are working on rectifying it.

I wasn't in possession of the full facts and made many many assumptions it would seem. And I shouldn't have.

I'm hoping we will get this sorted as I would like to keep her on the team and make sure she feels part of it.

Don't you have even the most basic grievance/disciplinary processes in place?

You want one drawn up by your HR consultants but in the mean time do some basic research.

http://www.acas.org.uk/?articleid=2174