Dear Ritu,
Even though if the performance is good then termination of an employee citing reasons for underperformance is illegal. If your management has communicated to terminate her then you may talk to them and tell them that the newly joined employee needs to be given a chance to correct her behaviour. All that is required from her is to change her orientation.
Please note that children also commit a lot of mistakes that embarrass their parents but that does not mean that the parents throw out their children out of the home.
I am not against termination of employee per se. The option of termination can be exercised provided employee remains incorrigible even after counselling.
This case is not that big as you have made out. Possibly you could be new to this kind of thing.
Personal experience: - During my HR days, in one of my employment, the company had provided with a uniform to the employees. There were various types of uniforms depending on the designation. For women managers, a saree and a blouse was the uniform. A smart lady purchased a blouse-piece of exact matching colour and stitched blouse on her own. Nothing was wrong when she did that but then the problem with the new blouse was that it was too revealing and it was embarrassing for other staff members. Incidentally, she was the seniormost amongst the women folks and we did not have any senior woman who could have counselled her. Finally, my General Manager and I, both of us counselled her and apprised her of the negative consequences of her action. She stopped doing whatever she was doing and normalcy was restored.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar
Even though if the performance is good then termination of an employee citing reasons for underperformance is illegal. If your management has communicated to terminate her then you may talk to them and tell them that the newly joined employee needs to be given a chance to correct her behaviour. All that is required from her is to change her orientation.
Please note that children also commit a lot of mistakes that embarrass their parents but that does not mean that the parents throw out their children out of the home.
I am not against termination of employee per se. The option of termination can be exercised provided employee remains incorrigible even after counselling.
This case is not that big as you have made out. Possibly you could be new to this kind of thing.
Personal experience: - During my HR days, in one of my employment, the company had provided with a uniform to the employees. There were various types of uniforms depending on the designation. For women managers, a saree and a blouse was the uniform. A smart lady purchased a blouse-piece of exact matching colour and stitched blouse on her own. Nothing was wrong when she did that but then the problem with the new blouse was that it was too revealing and it was embarrassing for other staff members. Incidentally, she was the seniormost amongst the women folks and we did not have any senior woman who could have counselled her. Finally, my General Manager and I, both of us counselled her and apprised her of the negative consequences of her action. She stopped doing whatever she was doing and normalcy was restored.
Thanks,
Dinesh Divekar