Is it the best idea to fire my assistant manager?
Hi guys, I’m relatively new to management, I’ve been running the facility I work at smoothly for about a year and a half. During that time I’ve hired a team of 4 to work under me and had almost no employee turnover. The issue I’m running into now is one of my employees who’s been established as my right hand man and I’ve promoted to assistant manager has had 3 separate court cases within a month, DUI, driving without a license, and domestic battery (no charges being filed but in our state any domestic altercation is legally required to go to court.) He’s been a major part of restructuring how our facility operates and has years of technical experience that have been a great help in the assorted repairs that we deal with in our industry. However with the recent amount of court cases and an increasing number of missed days due to personal reasons, family issues etc, it’s seriously affecting our production since we run such a small team and is turning into an escalating pattern. Additionally we work in a niche industry and sourcing a replacement is not an easy task, I’ve talked to him multiple times over the last several months and every time I feel he’s got his personal life sorted out another big event happens.
So what would be your advice? I need him on my team but is it worth the headache to keep him on?