November 24, 2007
Letters Of Termination - How it is done affects the entire workers
How it is done affects the entire workers and the overall business productivity. Because the worker may try to come back with legalities or claims of unfair separation, you should collect enough evidence on your separation case. If counseling and warnings fail, the small business owner or Human resources director should dismiss the bad worker and hire a better person for the job. And, now and then, you can't find the fraud, or the jobholder never screws up enough to separate. However, if you believe the jobholder's productivity can be altered, counseling personnel is an intermediate step before separating becomes necessary.
If the small company is big enough to have an Hr department, you should have them review the lay off plan for legal compliance. Consciously or unconsciously, the employee facing dismissal often resorts to offensive behavior. And, we advise you to review this agreement with your legal counsellor, although there's no law compelling you to do so. For example, when you sacked him for a productivity problem or laid him off as a cost cutting move, the commission always favors the separated employee. As a side note, there have been cases, tested in court in the United States, where personnel refused to carry out a directive on religious grounds and their employers sacked them for disobedience. Do you need to explore further? Here you inform the insubordinate individual exactly what you expect of him and what he should do to correct the problem. And you also can't legally elect to pass over a job candidate because they are female or Hispanic and so on. Unless there is a contract spelling out why and how a jobholder can be laid off, there is no agreement to that effect. But instead of terminating them outright, you should give them a second change.