Written counseling is important. I have advised and represented small business owners. The best protection from a false claim is written counseling made at the time of the alleged infraction. Even the most basic workplace will have scratch paper somewhere. You as a manager need to include the basics: what the employee did wrong, when
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An Employer Needs to Document Problems
By Thomas J. Crane on
Posted in Discrimination, General
If you have a problem employee, it is important to document those problems. Written counseling serves many purposes. Michael Fox discusses a case in which the employer did not document those problems and lost a claim for discrimination because of that failure. Of course, he assumes the alleged work problems were genuine. Maybe they were…