Dear Abhishek,
There cannot be denial of the requirements of the body during 12 night to 4AM. Keeping this into consideration, employers, who provide for shift duty allowance, double it for C shift. I do not know what is your case.
To break the situation please make a provision for change of shift fortnightly, this may be of some help.
As you say you had counselling sessions and also sent warnings on their computers, issuing further warnings wont serve any purpose except they perceiving the management as weak.
Sleeping whilst on duty is one of the grave misconducts on the part of the employees. If nothing works please issue a show cause on the lines drafted below
Mr.........................
Designation...............................
Department.....................................
Sub; Show Cause Notice.
Dear Sir,
It has been brought to our notice that you have been found sleeping whilst on duty on dates and times given below:
1.
2.
3. and so on.
You have been informed of the same and also counselled by------------------ on (pl. give dates).
The management deems it necessary to point out to you that sleeping whilst on duty is a major act of misconduct. The act gains more gravity when it becomes habitual.
In view of the above the management has taken a serious view of the act of misconduct as above and has decided to issue this notice to you requiring you to show cause as to why suitable disciplinary action is not taken against you. You are required to submit your explanation within 24 hours from the receipt of this notice. In case no reply is received from you within the stipulated time the management shall be free to take such action against you as it deems fit. Please acknowledge the receipt of this notice on the office copy.
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Some times sheer counselling does not work. Let us hope either of the alternatives work.
Regards
S.K.Johri