Why you must take quick action when you have a problem employee. Step-by-step procedure for termination of employees.

December 3, 2007

Employee Misconduct - Just get your facts straight and create good

The common sense approach to termination of employees.

Just get your facts straight and create good solid documentation on why you sacked the worker. It doesn't matter how many witnesses saw the problem individual receive your verbal warnings, you'll lose without evidence. When the need for worker termination arises, it rarely comes as a surprise to either the supervisor or the employee involved. Here's how a great Personnel professional helps with a worker firing. For example, when your normal severance policy is 2 weeks of pay, an increased severance could be 2 months of pay in return for a release. For example, you could inform him his employment is ending in 2 weeks. Firing a jobholder for sexual harassment is not as easy as one might think. Because this is a common occurrence, you should keep sample notifications of layoff that specifically apply to this issue. At will employment; however, does not allow you to separate someone because they are disabled. Then both you and the employee sign off on the warning form and you place the document in the worker's file.

Even a chronically late insubordinate worker can cause safety problems as other personnel try to pick up the slack or to speed up and catch up on production when the employee finally makes it in. Worker dismissals are stressful for both the manager and the employee. Admittedly, it'll be stressful for you and the worker, but you just go through the motions. After lay off, a Personnel professional frequently becomes the ex-worker's advocate and the primary contact to the firm. And, he'll accept the demotion as better than being out on the street.

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The common sense approach to termination of employees.