SHOW CAUSE NOTICE OR CHARGE SHEET

Recently in our orgn. a case of gross misconduct is highlighted in which various catg. of employees are involved.


What i've to issue ; show cause notice or charge sheet

Whats the basic difference between the both

Who is/are the official competant for signing over CS/SCN.


Urgent action is to be taken, Seniors kindly advise.


Regards,


JITEN

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Seniors kindly reply

HAI,
Show cause notice(SN) is issued for civil actions
and charge sheet(CS) is issued for criminal actions.

In Show cause notice, by serving this notice an opportunity is given to the offender for his actions by asking him to defend the charges made against him by explanations and reasons by writing and as well as personal hearing. If the offender clears himself that whatever he has done is right then the charges/actions will be dropped against him.

In charge sheet , you serve a notice against the criminal actions for defending, but should be very careful while serving this notice, you should take advice from proper lawyer. Otherwise it will backfire you.

Hope this will help you out......
check before making any legal decisions.

The show cause notice should be issued after the oral warning once or twice depending on the seriousness of the problem. The show cause notice is the first record of legal action from the company side which will be documented.

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Ganesh

As explained by others earlier,

Show Cause notice is served to get explanation for a misconduct of an employee and the employee is expected to give explanation for the same. if the management is not satisfied with the explanation then Chargesheet is issued and again explanation is sought from the delinquent. Still if the management is not satisfied then domestic enquiry is carried out.

Normally, for minor misconduct Show Cause notice is issued. Here normally management dont intend to take any legal action. They only want to warn an employee for his bad/riotous behaviour.

Chargesheet is issued when the misconduct is a major one and management intends to carry on domestic inquiry for the same.

So, normally, issuing Show Cause notice is the first step of issuing chargesheet only to make the case stronger from management point of view.

Regards,
Nilendra