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Reason to Believe Dishonest Employee

Theresa Muir

Hi All

I hope you are all well

We have a situation were an employee has asked for time off to attend their Gran mother's funeral, to which they were granted, however, we have very good reason to believe that the funeral that they attending was actually her partners Gran mothers funeral - have any of you dealt with this sort of situation before?

Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated 

Regards

Theresa

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  • Hi Theresa

    I have, and while it is frustrating that the employee was not completely honest at the time (we gave time off (1 day) for what he said was his uncles funeral but it was actually his wife's uncle), we would have given him the time off anyway to attend.
    His manager spoke to him about being disappointed with him that he was not honest and it was left at that. Our employee said he was afraid he would not get the time off if he said it was his wife's uncle and as he was close to him he really wanted to be there.

    Dishonesty is never the way to go, but in the grand scheme of things and in my experience of dealing with dishonesty in a workplace, this situation is probably more of a minor issue.

    Fionnuala.
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  • Hi Theresa

    I have, and while it is frustrating that the employee was not completely honest at the time (we gave time off (1 day) for what he said was his uncles funeral but it was actually his wife's uncle), we would have given him the time off anyway to attend.
    His manager spoke to him about being disappointed with him that he was not honest and it was left at that. Our employee said he was afraid he would not get the time off if he said it was his wife's uncle and as he was close to him he really wanted to be there.

    Dishonesty is never the way to go, but in the grand scheme of things and in my experience of dealing with dishonesty in a workplace, this situation is probably more of a minor issue.

    Fionnuala.
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