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Hello,
I am in a pickle. I am needing some advice for my son, who works with his step father and I in a small family business. I am not familiar with the employment laws and need to know how to proceed.
He has worked tirelessly over the last 2 years, never complains about hours, days, public holidays etc. He is 21yrs old and has been verbally abused for far too long. (yes, it has created a huge issue in my marriage - which is a whole different story) It has been a very unhealthy situation.
Things came to a head again today and it literally exploded. The end result was my son receiving this email from my husband, his boss. As a side note, we don't have other permanent employees only temp staff, so its slightly different. My question is: As the working environment is so unpleasant and it has really affected my sons mental health, he can no longer come in to work. Does that mean he is not entitled to any pay? Before receiving this letter, he was once again threatened with dismissal. He was told: "When your mum and I get back from our holiday you will be on 3 months notice".........
My son does not respond, he just keeps quiet and suffers. I believe it to be unfair to say he gets nothing when being instantly dismissed, but then saying at the end, if you work a notice period you get paid....
What on earth does one do?? Thank you for any advice.
There are two jobs on the nursery which are the most important jobs of all and which you are aware need to be done daily without fail – unless in exceptional circumstances you cannot do them. I have banged on about this for years and I warn you about this every week. They are watering and monitoring water and going up the tree lines every single day without fail.
In two weeks while I was away yet again and like every other week that has gone before you did not go up the tree lines once. If you did it was partially. I returned to find the water tank a third empty. When asked why you had allowed both these things to happen you said I don’t know that was it! There was no reason at all! You had ample time to do it but you failed. Not once in two weeks did you check the trees.
You have been told time and time again of the consequences of not doing these chital jobs. You are dismissed with immediate effect for complete failure to carry out your task correctly.
In addition you failed to:
Empty bins daily - bins filled to overflowing for more than two weeks.
Check drippers daily for splits and leaks -Drippers left hanging down for months/weeks two black hose holes leaking significant amounts of water, split main yellow pipe.
Block and rubber ties on lines for weeks
Grass uncut
Strimming not completed this season in places
Trailer left unlocked with nothing in front of it while you are away for the day
Incinerator to be set alight weekly, left in rain full of sensitive documents and not done for months
Tools and materials lying outside from various jobs incomplete for weeks on end
Weeds in glass houses
Weeds in containers not removed for weeks
No schedule for work to or pattern of consistent maintenance
Tools left in places around barn after jobs and not returned to correct place
Leave multiple jobs incomplete such as plastic below the plant pots uncut. Something I have asked you to do hundreds of times.
The list could go on
This is not the first time this has happened. You have never gone through a week without me asking you why you are not doing the critical job. Its because you cannot be bothered. Plain and simple. You don’t care.
I am sorry you feel I have been unfair but the reality is you are completely incapable of carry out the tasks asked oof you consistently although you are quite capable of doing them. You are completely unreliable, and you cannot be trusted ever to do tasks asked of you. When I ask you to do something 50% of the time they are not done, and you wonder why I get upset! You say consistently you will do them but in most cases such as routine maintenance they are never done. You have been given ample opportunities to correct this. But you refuse to do this. You blame me for this situation but the realisty is you are completely unreliable. Im at fault for being upset. You are at fault for losing your job.
Behave this way in your next job, refuse to do the critical jobs asked of you, consistently say to someone something will be done and its not and you will quickly receive another letter like this.
You are dismissed with immediate effect, or you can work the full required period of notice. With immediate effect you are on zero pay, if you work your notice it will be pay as agreed for your notice.
I am in a pickle. I am needing some advice for my son, who works with his step father and I in a small family business. I am not familiar with the employment laws and need to know how to proceed.
He has worked tirelessly over the last 2 years, never complains about hours, days, public holidays etc. He is 21yrs old and has been verbally abused for far too long. (yes, it has created a huge issue in my marriage - which is a whole different story) It has been a very unhealthy situation.
Things came to a head again today and it literally exploded. The end result was my son receiving this email from my husband, his boss. As a side note, we don't have other permanent employees only temp staff, so its slightly different. My question is: As the working environment is so unpleasant and it has really affected my sons mental health, he can no longer come in to work. Does that mean he is not entitled to any pay? Before receiving this letter, he was once again threatened with dismissal. He was told: "When your mum and I get back from our holiday you will be on 3 months notice".........
My son does not respond, he just keeps quiet and suffers. I believe it to be unfair to say he gets nothing when being instantly dismissed, but then saying at the end, if you work a notice period you get paid....
What on earth does one do?? Thank you for any advice.
There are two jobs on the nursery which are the most important jobs of all and which you are aware need to be done daily without fail – unless in exceptional circumstances you cannot do them. I have banged on about this for years and I warn you about this every week. They are watering and monitoring water and going up the tree lines every single day without fail.
In two weeks while I was away yet again and like every other week that has gone before you did not go up the tree lines once. If you did it was partially. I returned to find the water tank a third empty. When asked why you had allowed both these things to happen you said I don’t know that was it! There was no reason at all! You had ample time to do it but you failed. Not once in two weeks did you check the trees.
You have been told time and time again of the consequences of not doing these chital jobs. You are dismissed with immediate effect for complete failure to carry out your task correctly.
In addition you failed to:
Empty bins daily - bins filled to overflowing for more than two weeks.
Check drippers daily for splits and leaks -Drippers left hanging down for months/weeks two black hose holes leaking significant amounts of water, split main yellow pipe.
Block and rubber ties on lines for weeks
Grass uncut
Strimming not completed this season in places
Trailer left unlocked with nothing in front of it while you are away for the day
Incinerator to be set alight weekly, left in rain full of sensitive documents and not done for months
Tools and materials lying outside from various jobs incomplete for weeks on end
Weeds in glass houses
Weeds in containers not removed for weeks
No schedule for work to or pattern of consistent maintenance
Tools left in places around barn after jobs and not returned to correct place
Leave multiple jobs incomplete such as plastic below the plant pots uncut. Something I have asked you to do hundreds of times.
The list could go on
This is not the first time this has happened. You have never gone through a week without me asking you why you are not doing the critical job. Its because you cannot be bothered. Plain and simple. You don’t care.
I am sorry you feel I have been unfair but the reality is you are completely incapable of carry out the tasks asked oof you consistently although you are quite capable of doing them. You are completely unreliable, and you cannot be trusted ever to do tasks asked of you. When I ask you to do something 50% of the time they are not done, and you wonder why I get upset! You say consistently you will do them but in most cases such as routine maintenance they are never done. You have been given ample opportunities to correct this. But you refuse to do this. You blame me for this situation but the realisty is you are completely unreliable. Im at fault for being upset. You are at fault for losing your job.
Behave this way in your next job, refuse to do the critical jobs asked of you, consistently say to someone something will be done and its not and you will quickly receive another letter like this.
You are dismissed with immediate effect, or you can work the full required period of notice. With immediate effect you are on zero pay, if you work your notice it will be pay as agreed for your notice.
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