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Employee Warning Notice

November 14th, 2006 Posted by Mark

Like anything else when it comes to employee performance, you as the employer better cover your tail and document it. For instance, if your employee breaks company policies say, when it comes to too many sick days taken, or when it comes to showing up late for work, there might come a time when you have to draw the line and give them a formal warning. That is where the Employee Warning Notice comes into play.
The Employee Warning Notice allows you to officially document the infraction and keep the record on your files for future reference. In a perfect world, you wouldn’t need the Employee Warning Notice, but as all employers know, the world we work in is far from perfect. Employees do break company policies, and there comes times when discipline is necessary. One Employee Warning Notice could be enough to shock to employ toward better behavior.

And you may never have to write them up another Employee Warning Notice as long as they work there, even if that time period spans another 20 years of productive employment.

On the other hand, there are employees who will get one Employee Warning Notice, and soon be on their way to another Employee Warning Notice. In those instances, that is where the documentation comes in handy. Let’s say your company policy is a three strikes you’re out termination policy. That way, come third Employee Warning Notice, you will have the other two previous Employee Warning Notices on file.

That’s important if the employee contests their termination on some other grounds. You need that Employee Warning Notice on record, or all of those Employee Warning Notices on record, to provide a paper trail showing your side of the story. The Employee Warning Notice can document exactly what the infraction was, and how often it was committed.