Employer's guide to handling difficult employees

June 21, 2008

Termination Letter - Once you have decided to layoff your personnel,

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

Once you have decided to layoff your personnel, you must decide when to let them know. For the most part, you won't get any questions because the dismissal has stunned the jobholder. The letter should clearly state the grievances, previous warnings with dates, and the notice is a notice of termination. Whether it is a reality or an unforgiving worker trying to get "even", you must deal with wrongful employment termination claims before they get to court. More importantly, you must include facts that back up your grounds for dismissing the worker. Without paperwork or physical evidence to back reasons for termination, you're opening a window for separated employees to claim illegal layoff. When the jobholder can't hit a deadline, then you don't give him time sensitive work. This will increase your payroll which will decrease your overall tax rate. Once you have set up the rules, you can then begin the second item, documenting the worker's problems.

When looking for a dismissing personnel manual, there are six areas you must consider. o Threatening to go to the EEOC, government authorities, the press or upper management about firm wrongdoing or to assert his or her lawful rights. Many computer experts can access a business computer network from home or an Internet caf even if the firm has not set up the network to support such access. o How would you characterize your department's morale? When developing your firing disabled worker polices, it should be similar to those you follow for separating your other workforce. You have an insubordinate individual who is willfully testing your authority. You may be angry or upset over this worker's actions that have lead to the layoff, and rightly so.

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