Staff having to leave for emergency.?

[benedmonds]

Hypothetical..ish question - If you have a member of staff or free lancer who has to leave a job for an emergency at home that is about an hour away. They are in a team of 3 and the job could go on without them.

 

What would you expect the team to do?

[ukminch]

Depends if it was genuine or not..... But I'd expect the team to crack on and do the best they could to finish the job. Swings and roundabouts

[josharb87]

Are you meaning that the one who needs to get home, doesn't have his own transport so would need the team to down tools to give him a lift?

[Midge]

Depends what you class an an emergency? If someone's partner or child was injured or fell seriously ill then yes definitely let them go. If it's something like they forgot to lock front door or let the cat out then no. Common sense decision at the time I suppose.

 

Also depends on how big the job at the time of emergency is!

[matelot]

not enough information to vote really...

 

Has it happened before?

Are you near a train station?

Nature of emergency?

Is the person generally a good worker?

[Steve Bullman]

Hypothetical ish my backside! . Of course they should carry on if they are able...I mean assuming they were capable of carrying out the work. Take it your guys down tools and went back to the yard? Re emergencies, I've had to leave jobs before now, it's always been with the children involved, and whoever im working for doesn't get a say in the matter in those circumstances. I wouldn't charge them for the time I had been on site though

[diervek]

Crack on.

You said yourself the job can go on without them.

[Stoatally]

Looking at the poll it appears to be an issue of how does the person with the home emergency get home - I'm guessing it's a 3 man team on site in one company truck?

 

Fair enough - if it's a proper emergency at home then there'd be no stopping me and I wouldn't stop anyone else from going.

 

I guess I'd be looking at how they get home? Maybe one of the 2 left can take them to the nearest station / bus stop? Can someone come and get them?

[tree-fancier123]

if the worker has to get somewhere real quick because of a genuine emergency, family member being rushed to hospital etc, it does seem worth the downtime to drive them, rather than wait for a taxi to get to the site, if it's the kind of thing that happens once a year on average, no great loss

[benedmonds]

Are you meaning that the one who needs to get home, doesn't have his own transport so would need the team to down tools to give him a lift?

 

Exactly..