How to handle this situation with staff manager

[BlueSky2019]

Tomorrow the person will be given a list of conduct/performance issues and told a full investigation is underway.
He will also be presented with an option to leave a immediately with pay in lieu of notice statutory redundancy.
Turns out he’s only worked with us for 6 years so not as huge a pay out as I feared; also understand there is a cap at £571 per week.

Hoping for everyone’s sake he accepts offer and leaves immediately.

 

[SillyBill]

Tomorrow the person will be given a list of conduct/performance issues and told a full investigation is underway.
He will also be presented with an option to leave a immediately with pay in lieu of notice statutory redundancy.
Turns out he’s only worked with us for 6 years so not as huge a pay out as I feared; also understand there is a cap at £571 per week.

Hoping for everyone’s sake he accepts offer and leaves immediately.

Sounds like you've approached it the right way. We tend to always give people an off ramp with some money and follow up with as a strong a hinting as is possible in a meeting that the investigation is ultimately a foregone conclusion (without so much as explicitly stating it...). A lot of cases the cash isn't deserved but for a clean process it is worth just getting people out the door there and then IMO. The stress of these things continuing for a moment longer than absolutely required is not worth the price. Never regretted paying people out the door.

 

[nelioneil]

Tomorrow the person will be given a list of conduct/performance issues and told a full investigation is underway.
He will also be presented with an option to leave a immediately with pay in lieu of notice statutory redundancy.
Turns out he’s only worked with us for 6 years so not as huge a pay out as I feared; also understand there is a cap at £571 per week.

Hoping for everyone’s sake he accepts offer and leaves immediately.

Which is it? Performance or redundancy? I think be very careful on this situation, You don't want to be accused of getting rid of staff as "redundancy" if the underlying reason is performance related. Redundancy means the job will cease to exist later.

 

[WaveJumper]

Well it will be interesting to see how it went down last week

 

[Bob Morgan]

Tenner says he stays

 

[Bob Morgan]

Looks as though my Tenner is safe!

 

[WaveJumper]

Looks as though my Tenner is safe!

What do they say no news is good news ?