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September 14, 2010

Make sure you have them review your reasons (Dishonest Employee)

Why it's risky to wait when firing an employee

Make sure you have them review your reasons before firing. You are on the road to change — you have identified the bad behavior, counseled and disciplined the worker, but the jobholder just can't seem to upgrade. Now and then when unemployment is high, the government will extend the eligibility for another 13 weeks. When it becomes necessary to fire someone, another question you should ask is, "How will this affect the remaining workers?

You can create one of these using your termination letter template. The overall goal of any dismissal is to stay out of court and to keep your costs low. Within this section, you must state that this final incident has left you with no other choice than to dismiss this worker. No matter how you personally feel about an employee, you should act on misbehavior and end it right away. The boss will have to issue one of these to the employee when he or she repeats the inappropriate behavior thus ignoring the boss. Often this is all the motivation a worker desires to upgrade. There are other alternatives in Chapter 5, but these are mostly the most practical.As a final alternative, you can always layoff the high-risk worker without a release, and let the chips fall as they may. You can handle most employee productivity problems by giving a oral notification. You may have been told that to "legally" layoff you should document the employee's performance problem and bad behavior. o Step 4: Decide on a discontinuance package. While this works for low-risk personnel, this is not the right approach for medium and high risk workforce, which are the majority of termination cases. While you should separate within 48 hours after an event, you also should remain composed during the firing interview.

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Why it's risky to wait when firing an employee