Lots of small issues make one big issue?

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Sorry if this has already been asked before.

If there are numerous examples over a period of time of somebody not following procedures but in a fairly minor way, can they all be added together and dealt with at once for disciplinary purposes? Or should each specific example be dealt with at that time, even if it meant invoking disciplanry processes for fairly minor infractions?

Together each incidence adds up to a picture of someone who is clearly incomptetent but on their own they are fairly insignificant.

I'm trying not to out myself by giving examples but say for instance somebody worked in a shop and one week they left packaging in an aisle, the next week they gave someone too little change, the following week they stocked a shelf incorrectly - none of them would be massive misdemeanours individually would they, but would a manager be justified in bringing someone in three, four weeks after the first incident and listing them all together?

TIA.

You really need to be raising them informally as they occur. Its not very fair to not mention things and then summon someone to a disciplinary and most formal procedures require you to have tried to resolve informally first. That said addressing the multiple failures to comply together makes sense if you have already tried informally

Thank you.

Regarding raising informally...how informal is informal? Should records be kept (and would parties need to agree the accuracy of any such records) or does this make it formal? How would you prevent one person saying "I raised it with you verbally at the time and told you it was unacceptable" and the other person saying "you have never raised it with me"?

Thanks again.

Our work give a verbal warning, but a signed agreement that it has been given is put on file so "xxx manager today spoke to yyy about zzz and the following action was agreed." Then both sign the paper.

Then it's a written warning.

Then disciplinary.