Workplace Conduct

Southwest Care Center endeavors to maintain a positive work environment. Each team member plays a role in fostering this environment. Accordingly, we all must abide by certain rules of conduct, based on honesty, common sense, and fair play.
Because everyone may not have the same idea about proper workplace conduct, it is helpful to adopt and enforce rules all can follow. Unacceptable conduct may subject the offender to disciplinary action, up to and including discharge, in the Organization's sole discretion. The following are examples of some, but not all, conduct which can be considered unacceptable:

 

1. Obtaining employment on the basis of false or misleading information.

2. Stealing, removing, or defacing Southwest  Care  Center property or a co-worker's property, and/or disclosure of confidential information.

3. Completing another team member's time records.

4. Violation of safety rules and policies.

5. Violation of Southwest Care Center's Drug and Alcohol-Free Workplace Policy.

6. Fighting, threatening, or disrupting the work of others or other violations of Southwest Care Center's Workplace Violence Policy.

7. Failure to follow lawful instructions of a supervisor.

8. Failure to perform assigned job duties.

9. Violation  of  the  Punctuality  and  Attendance  Policy,  including  but  not  limited  to  irregular attendance, habitual lateness, or unexcused absences.

10. Gambling on Organization property.

11. Willful  or  careless  destruction  or  damage  to  Organization  assets  or  to  the  equipment  or possessions of another team member.

12. Wasting work materials.

13. Performing work of a personal nature during working time.

14. Violation of the Solicitation and Distribution Policy.

15. Violation of Southwest Care Center's Harassment or Equal Employment Opportunity Policies. Violation of the Communication and Computer Systems Policy.

16. Unsatisfactory job performance.

17. Any other violation of Southwest Care Center policy.
     

Obviously, not every type of misconduct can be listed. Note that all team members are employed at-will, and Southwest Care Center reserves the right to impose whatever discipline it chooses, or none at all, in a particular instance.

 

The Organization will deal with each situation individually and nothing in this reference guide should be construed as a promise of specific treatment in a given situation. However, Southwest Care Center will endeavor to utilize progressive discipline but reserves the right in its sole discretion to terminate the team member at any time for any reason.

The observance of these rules will help to ensure that our workplace remains a safe and desirable place to work.