By this time next week, you could be rid of your problem employee.
Includes a letter of termination template.

December 4, 2007

The legality may vary (Employee Warning Letter) from country to country

How a bad employee is causing more problems than you think.

The legality may vary from country to country so keep this in mind. When you sit down and let the employee go, you must be sincere about the reasons you feel the need to separate him. The incident could be a single act like the worker violating a safety rule or a result of poor performance over a few weeks. The law considers a two-week employee notice of lay off acceptable. The supervisor sacked her for misbehavior and job desertion after a 3-day investigatory suspension. With progressive discipline, you destroy the disgruntled employee's legal case. At times immediate separation isn't practical. Therefore, this is a substantial step in the lay off procedure and you should prepare well-thought out questions. Therefore, plan what you'll communicate to workforce, customers and suppliers about the firing. Remember there are always several sides to a story, so don't just consider the eyewitness story, but hear out the worker under fire before continuing the dismissal program. The first item to consider when figuring out how to terminate worker workforce under contract is to decide if dismissing this worker can wait until their contract expires. This will make the lay off much less painful, since you're showing a personal vote of confidence in the employee (and showing the dismissal is on the account of financial issues rather than productivity).

Probationary Workers And Wrongful Lay off. Your employee manual should list disobedience as one of the infractions that can cause separation. The first paragraph should outline that it serves as a written notification, the grounds for the written notice, and the cause of the jobholder receiving the written notice.

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How a bad employee is causing more problems than you think.