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May 18, 2008

Employee Warning - Remember if you layoff appropriately, you'll not surprise

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Remember if you layoff appropriately, you'll not surprise the employee. At times an immediate terminating is proper, but other times there are risks of legal repercussions. o Refusing to cover-up for a supervisor's misbehavior.

o The likelihood the jobholder will take legal action against you and the business for unlawful dismissal. Now I must stress this is VERY simplistic. o Step 7: Draft the separation contract and release. The caution here is to do the firing in a civil and calm manner, being careful not to do anything or say anything that might be construed as defamation of character. You can still layoff workforce for misbehavior or violation of firm policy. The employee's legal defender will, unquestionably, know this. Provide specific reasons for terminating the worker, their problem behaviors and dates these problems occurred. Through evidence, the difficult employee will know you're building a case on him and circumstances have gotten more serious. Small company owners know how overwhelming a problem employee can become. While at ABC Firm, Sherry carried out several projects and assignments. Often, insubordinate employees realize that you're starting to build a case against them and they know that they will soon be on the chopping block if their performance doesn't upgrade. o All of your former workers will land on their feet, and commonly get better jobs than they had previously.

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