August 6, 2008
Problem Employee - Hands off the cookie jar, or pay - The Province
Documentation of problems unrelated to the disability is key when separating this worker. In any of these cases, sacking a worker with tact and grace is important to your stress level. For some dismissals, you have the legal right to sack immediately. The first time you separate an employee, you may be just as nervous as he was at the job interview. As long as the outside behavior doesn't affect their work productivity or the productivity of your company, you cannot fire them without fear of a wrongful lay off law suit. If you search the Internet, you will find a few sample worker termination letters. Also, if some outside reason causes the jobholder to resign, the unemployment commission would consider this an involuntary termination. Having all this knowledge will be your best protection against a costly suit. If you lay off a worker for "cause," a clear, well-written statement of the reasons for the layoff will inhibit any future legal action by the worker. In summary, we're offering you extra severance benefits in return for your agreement to waive claims regarding your employment against ABC Firm and its representatives. But if you must do this, you need a good sample layoff letter for demeanor from which you can develop your own notice. In other words, do whatever you can to change the disgruntled worker's annoying habits or layoff the worker outright.
If you deal directly with worker firings, then you must know these worker rights in termination. I don't think this is necessary when you obviously state you'll lay off for the next infraction. I have decided to terminate you from employment at
A 2004 study found an astounding 79% of employees admit to stealing or considering doing so from their employers. One in five has already done so by providing inflated expense accounts, cooking the books or pocketing money from cash sales. From Continue