Fckg ell I’m not risking a fighting drunk Irishman, that’s me out of any meet ups Mind you the Brexit crowd will probably be waiting for me too
Honestly Doc this makes me cringe. I employ a dozen people and one EU employee is currently taking legal advice to stop me paying him a £2k PA bonus because he says it is not a pay rise. It’s tough being an employer too you know. You do post some good stuff but you post some absolute bollocks too
Unfortunately I can’t because I have to treat him the same as everyone else. It is exactly what he wants so he can press all of the buttons Doc is describing, he tries incredibly hard to be treated differently so we can enjoy a day at a tribunal. Not happened yet in 12 years and I have more patience than he can possibly test but is there really a need to press employer buttons? The nett outcome is a big reluctance on my part to create any more jobs. By the way, it wasn’t an attack on Doc, I have just had two weeks of this ****e daily. Neither am I unsympathetic to Heidi’s position but not all employers are ogres, you included I am guessing?
I'm lucky Marcos. My employees are all close family and it'll stay that way. Had my fair share of troublemakers through the years and know the stress involved. Is there any way you could nudge that employee towards seeking alternative employment or is he or she irreplaceable. Also am sympathetic towards Heidi plight but can offer no solutions to her
Marcos I have had exactly the same as you and suffered too many compromise agreements that go against the grain, but due to the way company insurance policies work I have been forced to accept giving people money even though its easily provable that no blame could be apportioned to the business. Insurance decide its cheaper to bung someone cash than go theough the tribunal route. Yes I have had to prove in tribunals that the company wasnt racist with plenty of spurious claims. If Heidi is being bullied by her employer and actually being shafted as it seems to be the case. I offered her some advice to someone who needs it. Not writing a book on how to screw small businesses.
I outsource to a company called HR Department. As long as I follow their advice I am covered. This particular employee also has a taxi and loves to tell me (and everyone else) how much money he has and the fact that he doesn’t need his job. He openly tells me to give him a letter if I want him to leave (not that I am pushing for that at all). Every single situation has to be a battle. Genuinely, how many people would take legal advice on how to avoid a bonus? You are quite right of course, it goes totally against the grain to give him anything.
Unfortunately, our biggest shafting since being in business was by a family member (well three actually but one was the leader). Set up in competition with us and attacked all of our business after I gave him a job. Sadly, he went bust within three years.
I was going to give the last line a like. In my case daughters and wife. Daughters will be inheriting the business anywaY so should be ok this time around
I’ll tell you about it next time I see you. Managed to spectacularly ruin his business by trying to shaft his biggest customer (around £400k per annum) that he happened to have taken off us in the first place. It is a real lesson in dumb
Obviously this oik is trying for constructive dismissal and just trying to wind you up into saying or doing anything. Im guessing you have a log of every conversation you’ve had with him, every work instruction given to him by his line manager/supervisor and his reaction plus performance logs, timekeeping etc etc etc. Ever since unions and no win no fee lawyers were allowed to engineer a whole new industry of compromise agreements SMEs have had to suffer the added cost in either insurance or as in your case protection. Recent rule changes allowing wrong claims to have to pay for the tribunal saw a reduction in spurious claims but EU and Labour are demanding a change back. I recently won a long battle with a guy, it cost us a fortune as we refused to give in and we went for the tribunal. It cost us thousands in management time just assembling the “bundles” and it took over a week in court. I was offsite every day for a week never mind the time I spent with lawyers and the cost of lawyers and independent expert witnesses, you can imagine the costs involved. We won easily on every count and he just laughed and didnt even have to pay for the tribunal. I asked the bench to consider awarding damages to us from the complainent, but they decided against. They are allowed to do that but I know of only 2 cases where they did it. Eu laws yet again shafting business. Good luck with your battle
