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- 03-30-2009, 01:42 PM #9Registered User
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Hi Sandy,
I think you are being quite reasonable here. She should be able to get up earlier if she's allowed to sleep before 10. Chatting till very late is not an excuse for not being able to get up in the morning, esp. if she can take a short nap with the baby during the day. I think you should have a talk with her and point this out to her. We all have to adapt to our working environment/condition, like you for example you have to go to work at 6:30 then you have to organise your rest etc to make it to work at that time; so does she, ie. rest earlier and get up earlier...
Hope you can work something out sooner. I don't think you should put up with this for too long...
- 03-30-2009, 02:26 PM #10Registered User
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My helper starts at 7:30am and we had a couple of occasions where she came out of her room 15-20 minutes late with no apology for her lateness. My husband had a stern word with her and said that we would dock money from her each time she was late starting and that in any job, lateness is not acceptable. She now is back on track and up and about at 7:30am - money is their life and as she sends back most of her salary to her family in the Philippines every month, she couldn't justify losing a $ of it.
Try this with your helper perhaps? if she doesn't change, then I think you may need to go down the route of finding a helper who is more committed to their job. Good Luck!
- 03-30-2009, 02:37 PM #11Registered User
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Have you really deducted money from her salary? And is it allowed? I also thought of doing it before, but just thought it is not allowed! anyone got any ideas on it?
- 03-30-2009, 02:50 PM #12Registered User
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No we didn't - it was to scare her.
- 03-30-2009, 02:52 PM #13Registered User
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At least she got scared, but no matter what i said to mine, she will just say yes, sorry, but the next day it's just the same thing again.
- 03-30-2009, 03:04 PM #14Registered User
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HK2008 is right, you shouldn't really have to put up with this. You can only warn/give chances to some people a limited no. of times and then realise that they just fail to meet your expectations on work attitude/priority or competence.
Don't think you can legally dock her salary though if she is regularly late.
- 03-30-2009, 03:23 PM #15Banned
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no u cannot dock their salary that is illegal
- 03-30-2009, 03:32 PM #16Registered User
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Well that is another debate which I don't really agree with - she has entered a contract to work for you so you and she has broken that contract so why shouldn't you be able to dock money - you pay her at the end of the day! Anyway - I think maybe her heart isn't in it and if she is continuing like this, perhaps she is waiting for you to terminate her contract rather than her breaking it - I think you would be better off that way!
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