Discipline: What Should We Do When an Employee Refuses to Sign a Disciplinary Form?

After discussing discipline with an employee, we always ask the person to sign the disciplinary form so there is a record that we talked with the employee about the issue. Quite often, the person refuses to sign. What do we do if an employee sues us someday? Would a court accept a document that has "employee refused to sign" written on it? Should we just bag the whole idea of written warnings and avoid this problem altogether? . . . (to read the remainder of this article, please log in below.)