Hello everyone - an employee has not been reporting to work citing his and his family member’s health issues. He did not even inform anyone for days until we reached out to him. We requested to send documents, he would commit dates to resume and then doesn’t show up. We gave the final warning to report in 2 days and submit relevant documents. He did not respond to the email and just sent a video where his mother doesn’t seem to be medically well. We do not know the authenticity of the video as he is not submitting documents as well. Please suggest if we can/should terminate?

I suggest to ask his any friend at office to find out the reason behind the same. Or you can dispatch a final show cause notice at his home address + email and ask him to respond within 48 hours as Employee might be going under serious circumstances and in that case you can still relieve him on a positive note considering supporting docs. Nonetheless, he should have sent a message. If he is really being unreasonable, I suggest follow your termination policy and mark him as absconding.