How to lay off and fire. Step-by-step. Includes letters and forms.

December 16, 2007

Los Alamos National Laboratory preparing to lay off (Laying Off Employees) hundreds

Our recommended employee termination procedure. Legal and fair.

So before sacking any worker, you should at least consult Human resources. This helps protect you against the employees claiming unfair layoff. Once you obviously set the rules and communicate them to workers, you can use worker write ups to document behavior. o Put the worker into progressive discipline for bad performance and misconduct issues. When terminating such a jobholder, you should know how to handle anything he or she may try. o If the accuser's side is weaker than the accused employee's side, then "no wrongdoing.". Now and then it becomes necessary to layoff personnel for economic reasons. You can rest easy that it will be plain to a court and any attorney-at-law that you have done everything possible to be fair in your separation of employees.

So, we live in a world where no one gives recorded references anymore. Many lawyers will take cases on contingency and try to prove you laid off the person without cause. Since this is such an important step in the firing procedure, you must plan ahead of time what you'll say to the worker. Not only do you worry about the firm's overall financial success, but you also should keep an eye on its daily operations. This could include files showing unlawful and improper schemes or a history of going to porn sites. This provides a record saying that you did meet with the jobholder and presented the information documented therein. The human resource person should give the rationale for firing, telling the executive that they can dispute the claims through the proper channels. Now you have an introduction to the concepts, so let's dig into the top ten most difficult dismissals.
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Our recommended employee termination procedure. Legal and fair.