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No contract for salary.
No contract for vacation or sick days as we are a small 5 person office....just time off when needed or arranged--I know bad thing but something I have no control over.
I am the "office manager" of this small office. I have an employee on "salary" since Feb 04. As of today, she has missed 6 days due to illness(not to mention snow days where I worked but she didn't cause she was inexperienced in driving in bad conditions--3 of those). This morning I get a call at 7am that she is sick and going to make a dr's appointment and will call me later with the details. I hear nothing from her so I call her at 10:30am to find out "she went back to sleep" and had an appointment at 2pm. I told her to call me after the appointment and let me know (and side note to ask the dr why she stayed sick all the time and if she was so sick why not go to an urgent care center).
I never heard another word......
I talked to the co-owner of our office and told him my thoughts were, to dock her pay for each day she has been out as she has no vacation or sick time built up (however no contract was ever drawn up so????). A couple of weeks ago, I spoke with this girl on her work ethics as she stays on her cell phone more hrs a day than I can count_-her mother even got mad at me because I told employee she was not to have personal calls EACH AND EVERY DAY and her mother got mad since I occasionally speak with my Mom during the work day but I have 10 yrs work on new young employee) and not being able to get much done while I did 90% of the work and our parttime ran circles around her--she promised to do better and did for 2 whole weeks).
Do I have the authority, with the owner's permission to dock her pay especially due to the number of absentees or even due to the number of "dr's appointments" that have lasted all day (about 4 more days besides the orginal 6 days off)? Yes I have not been documenting like I should however there is another employee who can testify about the absentees.
I am torn as this is a younger girl (19) that has no clue to the real world however I have a business to run. Is the fault of my business owner on him in the fact that there is no contract?
I strongley believe that she is having domestic problems with her boyfriend and believe this is the reasoning behind the sickness but honestly can't prove it--ie Friday when we left she was torn up due to boyfriend issues that I believe continued into the weekend).
BTW when my office went under new ownership, I "lost" 4 weeks pto however I have not taken a day off, and rarely a lunch hour in over a yr. I may be taking out the fact that I am getting burnt out when new help was hired and I am not one to let my office go to heck and a hand basket while I am gone.....
Will no contract help me through all this??????? The final decision is up to the boss who is out of state at this time but I gotta do what I gotta do to run the office like it needs to be...
No contract for salary.
No contract for vacation or sick days as we are a small 5 person office....just time off when needed or arranged--I know bad thing but something I have no control over.
I am the "office manager" of this small office. I have an employee on "salary" since Feb 04. As of today, she has missed 6 days due to illness(not to mention snow days where I worked but she didn't cause she was inexperienced in driving in bad conditions--3 of those). This morning I get a call at 7am that she is sick and going to make a dr's appointment and will call me later with the details. I hear nothing from her so I call her at 10:30am to find out "she went back to sleep" and had an appointment at 2pm. I told her to call me after the appointment and let me know (and side note to ask the dr why she stayed sick all the time and if she was so sick why not go to an urgent care center).
I never heard another word......
I talked to the co-owner of our office and told him my thoughts were, to dock her pay for each day she has been out as she has no vacation or sick time built up (however no contract was ever drawn up so????). A couple of weeks ago, I spoke with this girl on her work ethics as she stays on her cell phone more hrs a day than I can count_-her mother even got mad at me because I told employee she was not to have personal calls EACH AND EVERY DAY and her mother got mad since I occasionally speak with my Mom during the work day but I have 10 yrs work on new young employee) and not being able to get much done while I did 90% of the work and our parttime ran circles around her--she promised to do better and did for 2 whole weeks).
Do I have the authority, with the owner's permission to dock her pay especially due to the number of absentees or even due to the number of "dr's appointments" that have lasted all day (about 4 more days besides the orginal 6 days off)? Yes I have not been documenting like I should however there is another employee who can testify about the absentees.
I am torn as this is a younger girl (19) that has no clue to the real world however I have a business to run. Is the fault of my business owner on him in the fact that there is no contract?
I strongley believe that she is having domestic problems with her boyfriend and believe this is the reasoning behind the sickness but honestly can't prove it--ie Friday when we left she was torn up due to boyfriend issues that I believe continued into the weekend).
BTW when my office went under new ownership, I "lost" 4 weeks pto however I have not taken a day off, and rarely a lunch hour in over a yr. I may be taking out the fact that I am getting burnt out when new help was hired and I am not one to let my office go to heck and a hand basket while I am gone.....
Will no contract help me through all this??????? The final decision is up to the boss who is out of state at this time but I gotta do what I gotta do to run the office like it needs to be...