Thanks Dave. I am a 2.5 man band incl me. We do not have such policies. :-)

For now I do not feel having to recruit from scracth again. I had too may changes last year already. So I want him to fix his issues, but failing that I want to avoid having fallen foulf of the the prodecures which could bite me later if I have to dismiss. He is a contractor, but I am aware that he is an deemed employee anyway as he has no other income.