October 26, 2009
Employee Insubordination - o The worker has a great reputation outside
o The worker has a great reputation outside the firm and letting her go could hurt your small business's standing in the industry. The worker termination letter is a key document in this procedure. The total time of the interview is generally less than 15 minutes. You could ask Hr to do the investigation for you, but I recommend against it unless, unquestionably, you're an Human resources professional. The insubordinate employee will cross the line at some time or another on your published guidelines and then you can discipline and layoff her.
Second if you have a case of overwhelming misbehavior, you can immediately dismiss an employee. The worker can't sue you for improper lay off if you never fired her. Make sure you document these using escalating discipline techniques. You will discover that proper papers helps protect you from the legal retaliations of former workers. Your negotiation partner will either be the worker's attorney or the worker directly. This section covers legal duties affecting you and the small company during a reduction in force. What you communicate to the worker, to others or to "the file" should never make any reference to an improper reason. Mostly this is enough protection. This ends the Executive Summary. Therefore this example is a high risk termination and you must do a negotiated dismissal with him. When it comes to employee separation, it is important to follow standardized methods and to establish this program well before the need to lay off an employee presents itself.