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October 12, 2008

Tell him why it's so important to you, (Employee Problems)

Our problem employee said after we fired him "what took you so long". He's right. Here's what we should have done.

Tell him why it's so important to you, to him and to the business this incident doesn't occur again. When you refuse to do it, you have an angry ex-worker on your hands wanting to even the score with a litigation. You have an problem individual who is willfully testing your authority. Once you notice it, you should right away start down the path towards dismissal procedures.

You may need to find out how to separate employees protected by Federal and State laws. While this seems counterintuitive, it's a reality. o What was the standard of behavior expected of the worker and how was the noted behavior different? o If you were in charge, how would you change ABC Business? We know executives are different from rank-in-file workers, and they need to be treated differently during the layoff process. When appealing a dismissed worker's unemployment claim, you must have papers. Now and then, you must explore a little further before deciding to warn the worker. When terminating for wrongful reasons (which does now and then occur), you don't want any documentation. This makes it hard for the employee's legal adviser to argue you acted rashly and unfairly when you separated his client. Under such circumstances, the jobholder does not have to give the employer the reason for leaving her or his current position. Most juries find it insensitive to terminate a worker while she's away on family leave, medical leave and disability. Managers from Commonwealth countries for the most part use this term.

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Our problem employee said after we fired him "what took you so long". He's right. Here's what we should have done.