The secret to successful employee terminations.
With sample termination letter.

January 15, 2008

The jobholder exit form and interview (Terminating Employee) are important

Terminate without fear of making mistakes. Our recommended procedure.

The jobholder exit form and interview are important tools for owners and managers with a departing worker. This meant you could lay off an bad employee easily. Often it is difficult to lay off an employee over a single incident of gross misconduct. Since the cause of termination is poor business results, you want to bring positive attention to the employee's past work. Your final paycheck will be (state here that you're giving the final paycheck on the last date of employment or you will mail it within 30 days). These range from Disability Acts to Veterans Acts to Pregnant Personnel Acts. With the knowledge you gained in Step 1, you can now ask intelligent questions of the Personnel department and figure out how to best apply/bend the rules to lay off your difficult individual. This law compels you to tell the personnel and the most senior elected local government official about the dismissal. Since your primary purpose is to make the employee happy and stop anger, you should write the notification as positively as possible.

This is a waste of the firm's money and of the problem worker's potential. When an employee is no longer connected to the firm, he's more likely to tell the whole truth about what's going on. The worker dismissal notification is key to this program. You do the termination based on performance and Sue's is the worst in the organization. o The employee has a great reputation outside the company and letting her go could hurt the small business's standing in the industry. The second exception is when you have a legitimate reason, but you haven't taken the time to document and inform the jobholder of the problem.

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Terminate without fear of making mistakes. Our recommended procedure.