How do you handle a situation where a staff leaves your organization without notice and is working for a direct competitor?

[King Belieal]

Imagine having a staff whom you are trying your best to keep happy. And that staff suddenly ghosts you and your business. Only to be seen after a short while working for your direct competitor.

How would you handle such a situation as a business owner? Let it slide?

 

[magnus2022]

This kind of situation ise to put the employee in dilemmatic condition. The first step is to increase the work load of other staff and start looking for replacement. The employer may take over the work for the mean time or increase the work load of the staff. By so doing, salary of the worker that stopped work will be split among the workers that are doing the extra work

 

[Augusta]

I will let such a person go no need of tryi g to lure them back as they would still repeat same in future. it is to employ a new person

 

[eLdavis]

You can't do anything to them honestly, the only way where you can have legal ground to do something is if there was an agreement at the very beginning. Most people before they give out jobs there is always an agreement where the worker is not allowed to leave suddenly, he has to give notice two to three months in advance.

 

[Stardom22]

For me in my country there is the right of association whereby one is being allowed by the law to work with one anyone they wish. However in such case, the law with regards to the contracts and job terms may take its course for sure.

 

[Augusta]

You can't do anything to them honestly, the only way where you can have legal ground to do something is if there was an agreement at the very beginning. Most people before they give out jobs there is always an agreement where the worker is not allowed to leave suddenly, he has to give notice two to three months in advance.

Yeah where there was no agreement at the start of the job they might be little or nothing you can do if the staff leaves