A cleaning business owner asked:
When an employee is over their first 90 days and you evaluate them to give them a pay increase and you feel like they deserve a pay increase, can you tell them that if they start slacking off that you will decrease their pay back to the starting wage?
Our Reply:
You should have a policy for everything you do including pay raises. It's not a good idea to go up and down on pay because they're performing good one week and poorly the next. You open yourself up for all kinds of problems - "well my mother is in the hospital and I couldn't concentrate on work that week"...you get the idea. If it ever came up for dispute with state unemployment for example, they'd want to see all your documentation and policies.
The best thing you can do is document everything. If they're slacking, document it and have them sign it. Tell them the consequences of continuing in this manner. If it happens again, document it - have a 3 strike policy - written documentations, possible probation and termination. They need to know there are consequences - and the consequences can't be taking away their pay - ultimately it's losing their job.
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Posted by: mike k o chinwuba | June 03, 2009 at 04:25 PM