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March 20, 2009

Insubordination - What to Do about Employee Disobedience? The law

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What to Do about Employee Disobedience? The law protects the troublemaker from separation. You don't want to start escalating discipline and find out later your management doesn't agree or, worse yet, discover the problem employee is politically "protected.". Remember your ultimate goal is to create a safe and productive working environment for all employees. Making the dismissal Notice Employee Friendly. Mostly, after you dicker with her legal adviser over the package, you'll get her resignation and her release. You don't want to terminate someone for occasional minor misconduct occurring over the years.

Since the cause of termination is poor firm results, you want to bring positive attention to the employee's past work. These methods include documenting any problems that may have taken place with the worker. o Have you thoroughly detailed the business reason for the worker's job elimination and is it unlikely you'll refill this position within the next year? Make sure you can adapt the templates you collect to handle the most common causes for employment termination. My advice is to do this as soon as possible before someone in your chain of command or in Hr has a change of heart. o Complaining about another worker having sex with the employer. The Notice of Dismissal Is a substantial Legal Document. Wrongdoing, but long tenure - You give the employee a final written notice (see Chapter 6 for long-tenure, single-offense workforce). This will give you peace of mind when dealing with this problem individual.

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