[ARCADIA]

How do you get rid of deadbeats in your workforce if there is no way to prove they are deadbeats?

I don't need to prove that they are deadbeats. I simply need to focus on promoting, rewarding, and recruiting winners. I am not going to needlessly impose something like this on 90% of my workforce, simply to identify what is already painfully obvious to everyone. The deadbeats can do as they please; they will never see a raise, promotion, or bonus until their performance improves; and, if they drop low enough they will be fired for cause. Chasing deadbeats is usually a complete waste of time.

[Labyrinthos]

The deadbeats can do as they please; they will never see a raise, promotion, or bonus until their performance improves; and, if they drop low enough they will be fired for cause.

Unless you are a union employer, in which case everyone in the same classification gets the same wage regardless of competence or use or abuse of sick days. And you can't give a bonus to one employee unless you give the bonus to all within that particular employment classification, and if I recall correctly, Federal Law prohibits a union employer from paying a bonus of any kind unless the bonus is bargained for as part of the collective bargaining pprocess. Fire the employee for cause? Yeah,right. Only if you're willing to endure the time and expense of a lengthly grievance process followed by arbitration.