Employer's guide to handling difficult employees

November 16, 2007

Sometimes, the worker can't get along with their (Laying Off Employees)

Handling difficult employees? Here's what you must do before they destroy your business.

Sometimes, the worker can't get along with their coworkers, displays disobedient behaviors towards the employer or just can't do the job. Most juries find it insensitive to fire an employee while she's away on family leave, medical leave and disability. Or, if the business is big enough, you can transfer him and give your problem employee to another boss. Make sure you check off the dismissal reason and there is room for management to give a full account of the incident that led to the lay off. Or, it can be indirect, such as failing to follow a program as set forth in your worker handbook. The answer to this is "NO." Since high paid personnel are for the most part your older employees, they'll claim this selection standard leads to illegal age bias.

Or for a written warning, it may be missing a deadline set by the oral notice. When you must layoff or RIF (reduction in force) several workers at one time, the methods are different from those of a single separating. To keep your costs low, you should keep the high-risk employee working for you. To create these letters properly and to ensure you don't suffer from legal ramifications for unlawful layoff, find a sample layoff notifications. With an exit interview, you interview a recently fired worker about his experiences with the company. Therefore, you need to be keenly aware of how gross misconduct and sacking are connected - namely how to go about terminating a worker who is bad-behaving. You must wait until after the vacation or holiday to fire. The best way you can handle difficult employees is with a series of warnings and papers. This means you should pay part of a worker's unemployment compensation even if he worked only one day before you fired him.

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Handling difficult employees? Here's what you must do before they destroy your business.