Telling him not to come back was a bad move , its constructive dismissal , it would have been better if he had come back and you let him , I`d get legal advice off an employment lawyer , not FSB , and ask hows best to tidy this up before he has you in a tribunal for constructive dismissal .Had a bloke walk out on me one Friday Lunchtime. Grabbed his lunch bag and got in his car to go home.
I told him that if he did so, that he wasn’t to come back on the Monday. He just left anyway.
On the Monday, I rang the FSB (Federation of Small Businesses) who said I shouldn’t have said so to him and that he should have been given 3 written warnings over a 3 month period for the same misdemeanour, before I told to not come back.
Fortunately for me, he didn’t come back. I then immediately took it upon myself to make sure he was fully paid up to date including any outstanding holiday, stating in an accompanying letter that he had voluntarily left of his own accord.
He was less than 6 months away from retirement. I have subsequently learned that it has been pointed out to him that he was a fool to himself and that had let a hissy fit take the better of him that day. To which he agreed!
I’ve literally had nightmares of him turning up for work in the morning and woken up in a sweat, only to realise that it was an actual nightmare. Thank God this happened 2&1/2 years ago and he really is retired now, so cannot come back.
When you get somebody so awkward as that, who literally makes your own job unnecessarily difficult, let alone a misery, they are best gone! I haven’t looked back since, without realising just how much better life is without him. Everything is now done properly by me and our repairs bill having dropped like a stone. I don’t mind the extra work and actually enjoy the satisfaction that it is done exactly the way I want it to and properly too.