February 23, 2009
Employee Discipline - How are misbehavior and terminating connected? Above all,
How are misbehavior and terminating connected? Above all, be respectful to the jobholder as this will be a life-changing day for this person. If you fail to consider legalities and proper procedures, this procedure can cost the small business dearly. If you are a small business owner, you'll sign the agreement. However you decide to fire workforce, you should do it consistently. (This is because he didn't ever write a rebuttal.) The Jury's Conclusion: The worker's alleged illegal reason is bogus and only invented after the fact to extort money from the company. Finally, you don't have to be 100% correct for your documentation to hold up in court. By tolerating disobedience, you are sending a message to your workforce that they don't have to respect your authority in the workplace. And, if the employee had a company car, tell her you'll pay her back for cab fare.
If you had the foresight to have a obviously written firm policy handbook read and initialed by every employee, the process becomes a simple matter of following company policy to the memorandum. By targeting the problem early, having a paper trail, and writing a memorandum of separation for cause, the termination will not be as difficult. However, if the employee normally does a decent job, and the bad-behaving outlook is a recent affair, then the human resource workforce may decide to help the jobholder. To get your extra severance benefits, I must get a signed copy of this letter within 21 days. If you're an employer or a firm boss, you will eventually have to dismiss a worker for cause. Also you must have recorded substantiation to support those reasons.