An employee has worked for us for 7 weeks in a service contract.

They have made a catalogue of errors and lost us at least £1,000 a week through not being able to manage the job. Their paperwork was not upto scratch, timesheet errors resulting in some of our staff not getting paid etc.. and generally not listening to instructions. Basically they were absolutely useless and our client thought so too. However we overlooked the errors and thought with coaching they might come good.

Having said that, we needed someone there; its a notoriously hard part of the country in which to fill jobs!

We employed someone else to assist them ie with the admin but their role, hours and pay remained the same. They thanked us, but obviously got the hump after a week, were advised by the CAB to record 'evidence', came into work the next day, recorded an argument they had with their colleague and walked off the job without notice. We think the argument was engineered.

Then we started getting messages to say they were going to claim Unfair (constructive) Dismissal bla bla bla. I know they can't, after only 7 weeks employment. So I'm not worried about their threats. I can't imagine the CAB advising this course of action frankly, so I think that was a fib. There's nothing they can get us on....Wrongful Dismissal etc .

In fact I feel like suing THEM for Breach of Contract. However, we dont want them back under any circumstances. It was only a matter of time until we invoked the disciplinary procedure anyway, due to their continued numbskullery.

I obviously need to write to them, but what?? Ask for them to give us 1 weeks notice in writing? Assume they have terminated their own contract? invite them in for a disciplinary for not following company procedures?

We just want rid, pay them their dues and bye bye.