Our employee discipline procedure up to and including termination

October 3, 2008

If you decide on voluntary separations, the procedure (Employment Termination)

How a confused employer finally figured out employee discipline and termination.

If you decide on voluntary separations, the procedure is similar to what you learned in Chapter 10 for high-risk separations. Chapter 10: Procedure For Conducting High-Risk Negotiation Meetings. This hinders the small business as it places a need for further rehabilitative action later. However if the jobholder still refuses then you need to suitably and decisively sack the jobholder. Also the boss must give this feedback in a professional way proving that he or she did not provoke the situation. If you ever again [exhibit specific bad behaviors] or have other performance drops, you must expect further discipline which could include immediate termination. To do this, you'll need to coin an at will employment termination letter that details the reason for lay off and the effective date of dismissal. A difficult individual can exhaust not only the group spirit of the other workforce, but eventually the profit and efficiency of your small business.

In addition, the standards set forth by your exit interview policy will prevent you from say anything the worker can hold against you later. In each these cases, the well-informed employer will have clear papers the jobholder understood company policy. He can never sue us for illegal layoff if we never layoff him. From these 2 examples, you can see how tricky it is to separate someone when you don't apply your separation reasons consistently. However, regardless of the outcome you must document the incident in your own workers files so you can reference if it reoccurs. If you had the foresight to have a clearly written company policy handbook read and initialed by every worker, the method becomes a simple matter of following company policy to the notice. If you are conducting the meeting, prepare yourself for all emotional extremes. Make all efforts to keep your papers factual, objective and accurate.

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How a confused employer finally figured out employee discipline and termination.