If employees are not performing at work, then you may have to consider dismissing them. This can be very costly if you get it wrong and there's always the risk of finding yourself in an employment tribunal.
Nursery owners often contact me to ask if they can dismiss someone who has only been with them a few weeks or months, and the simple answer is yes. But you must be careful to follow the correct disciplinary procedure. Some people think that because the employee has worked for them less than 12 months they do not have to worry, and that they can just tell the employee not to come back to work. This is not true.
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