Case Study 4
The Financial Director for a local firm has always had responsibility for HR within the firm, although he has always confessed to knowing very little about employment law and actually not really liking the people management side of his job. During a routine management meeting it was agreed that two particular employees were becoming a considerable problem and should have been dealt with some time ago, the financial director was told to resolve the situation one way or another.
The Financial director contacted us for advice and guidance, as although the firm has fairly good policies and procedures in place, they had never used them and lacked confidence in such situations. We held several meetings with the management team, talked them through the investigation, the hearing and the appeal process, step by step.
Following this situation we held a couple of in-house training sessions with the management team, to encourage them to tackle poor performance in the future and to prevent long term issues going unchallenged.
