Recent content by DaveSki

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    Ex-employee has copied our database

    Usual story. Probably familiar to so many people. Person was a friend outside work. I had ambitions for this person to run the company over the longer term. Bottom line: don't employ friends.
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    Ex-employee has copied our database

    An ex-employee who we terminated their contract of employment recently has begun a job at a rival company. This ex-employee is now ringing our customers - their direct lines - and trying to sell exactly what this customer has historically purchased from us. Now this person got a new job in...
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    Redundancy procedure - can I make a specific person redundant?

    Yes, I have. I am having a meeting with this person tomorrow morning.
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    Redundancy procedure - can I make a specific person redundant?

    Because they are not on a final warning. And you can't simply fire people who have been employed for over 12 months. I'm speaking from experience here - we lost an unfair dismissal case at a tribunal previously.
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    Redundancy procedure - can I make a specific person redundant?

    We've made a redundancy before. We followed redundancy procedure to the letter. We looked at all the staff in the organisation in the process. However, this time it's a little different. We only have 1 person in sales. This person is not bringing in any business and hasn't for months now. This...