What to do with this employee leaving?
Discussion
It's not worth taking paid advice on this I wouldn't have thought as it'd cost more than just paying him...
We took on a sales rep in January this year. He was OK, tried hard, brought in a few leads but didn't and hasn't covered himself up to now.
When Covid kicked off we told him to work from home, we thought about furloughing him but as work from other avenues picked up we didn't bother. From what I can tell he has done very little from home up to this point and I was considering getting rid of him.
He was AWOL quite a bit whilst WFH, couldn't get hold of him and the excuses were his Mum was ill, his Gran was ill, he'd taken them to hospital etc.
Fast forward to last week, he hands his notice in to his line manager and she calls me to let me know. He's got a new job starting on 27th July, apparently said he's aware he has to give 30 days notice but he'll be leaving anyway.
Paying him up to then isn't a financial issue but more that I feel like he's been sitting at home doing absolutely nothing on full pay since mid-March and then dropped this on us when we suggested it might be time to start showing his face in the office.
What I want to do is write to him this weekend and tell him his last day of work will be Monday. I don't want to pay him until the end of the month knowing full well he'll be doing absolutely nothing, he's not being paid buttons and this as well as employer's NI etc is better off in my pocket than his.
If this isn't an option then I'll be telling him he has to be in the office until his last day and he can lick envelopes or something.
We took on a sales rep in January this year. He was OK, tried hard, brought in a few leads but didn't and hasn't covered himself up to now.
When Covid kicked off we told him to work from home, we thought about furloughing him but as work from other avenues picked up we didn't bother. From what I can tell he has done very little from home up to this point and I was considering getting rid of him.
He was AWOL quite a bit whilst WFH, couldn't get hold of him and the excuses were his Mum was ill, his Gran was ill, he'd taken them to hospital etc.
Fast forward to last week, he hands his notice in to his line manager and she calls me to let me know. He's got a new job starting on 27th July, apparently said he's aware he has to give 30 days notice but he'll be leaving anyway.
Paying him up to then isn't a financial issue but more that I feel like he's been sitting at home doing absolutely nothing on full pay since mid-March and then dropped this on us when we suggested it might be time to start showing his face in the office.
What I want to do is write to him this weekend and tell him his last day of work will be Monday. I don't want to pay him until the end of the month knowing full well he'll be doing absolutely nothing, he's not being paid buttons and this as well as employer's NI etc is better off in my pocket than his.
If this isn't an option then I'll be telling him he has to be in the office until his last day and he can lick envelopes or something.
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