Urgent Need for Advice on Show Cause Notice
In urgent need of your valuable advice. I work in the admin department, and recently my boss was changed. The organization that I have been working with for 5 years has issued me a show cause notice for willfully misplacing the attendance registers of the organization. I have informed them in the past that I have no idea where those registers are as they are kept in the open, and multiple people have access to them.
Furthermore, these registers are maintained by guards capturing only time in and time out, which bear no signature of employees. The registers are plain registers that HR has never reviewed or signed, as the office has a biometric machine installed through which it is mandatory to punch attendance. Additionally, the HR department releases a monthly email requesting department heads to submit monthly attendance of their teams, and subsequently, payroll is processed.
Possible Reasons Behind the Notice
In my opinion, there could be two reasons behind this surprise notice (as the registers went missing around 2.5 months back, and the notice has been issued on a holiday with a 48-hour notice to submit a response). First, my line manager consistently asks me to work on weekends, after office hours, and during my sick leaves, and has a very nasty and casual attitude towards work. Second, the company is going downhill in terms of sales, and the Admin function is overstaffed, so they need frivolous reasons to show the door to employees.
Please advise on what can be done in this case as I am feeling mentally harassed in a very planned manner. I am a junior resource with no reportee. The organization has gone through several HR leadership changes in the past 6 months. The show cause notice has been issued on a public holiday and was sent through email. I have only been given 48 hours to respond. Your help and advice will be greatly appreciated.
In urgent need of your valuable advice. I work in the admin department, and recently my boss was changed. The organization that I have been working with for 5 years has issued me a show cause notice for willfully misplacing the attendance registers of the organization. I have informed them in the past that I have no idea where those registers are as they are kept in the open, and multiple people have access to them.
Furthermore, these registers are maintained by guards capturing only time in and time out, which bear no signature of employees. The registers are plain registers that HR has never reviewed or signed, as the office has a biometric machine installed through which it is mandatory to punch attendance. Additionally, the HR department releases a monthly email requesting department heads to submit monthly attendance of their teams, and subsequently, payroll is processed.
Possible Reasons Behind the Notice
In my opinion, there could be two reasons behind this surprise notice (as the registers went missing around 2.5 months back, and the notice has been issued on a holiday with a 48-hour notice to submit a response). First, my line manager consistently asks me to work on weekends, after office hours, and during my sick leaves, and has a very nasty and casual attitude towards work. Second, the company is going downhill in terms of sales, and the Admin function is overstaffed, so they need frivolous reasons to show the door to employees.
Please advise on what can be done in this case as I am feeling mentally harassed in a very planned manner. I am a junior resource with no reportee. The organization has gone through several HR leadership changes in the past 6 months. The show cause notice has been issued on a public holiday and was sent through email. I have only been given 48 hours to respond. Your help and advice will be greatly appreciated.