Oral Admonishments

A disciplinary discussion between a management official who has authority to take disciplinary action and his/her employee in which the employee is informed that he/she has been disciplined by receipt of an oral admonishment. It is a disciplinary action which is not an adverse action. It is informal and the least severe penalty in the disciplinary program. The oral admonishment is used to correct misconduct or delinquency or to motivate employees to improve their work habits, work methods, or behavior. Because of its adaptability to a variety of situations, the oral admonishment is often adequate to effect the required correction or improvement, particularly when the employee has no previous history of violations. The oral admonishment has neither procedural requirements nor prescribed format. The process is oral except for the recording of the admonishment in the Supervisor's Employee record.