June 24, 2008
Chapter 7 explains how to look into gross (Employee Warning)
Chapter 7 explains how to look into gross misconduct (and minor misconduct for that matter). 2) Read through your report and give a copy to the employee. All of this will be viewed by a court if a suit even gets that far. If you terminated the employee for misbehavior, you must back this up with evidence. As you review these notices, you must notice the medium-risk notices ask for a release of claims while the low-risk letters do not. And if the worker goes back to school full-time, he's ineligible. Armed with your evidence and your employee termination later, you must then sit down with the employee and outline the reasons for the dismissal. For instance, saying the following could be damaging if the employee decides to sue you. It is my expectation you never again engage in gossip, and, if you do, you may be subject to termination.
If you don't, you may be inviting a complicated legal action. And in big public companies, executives often get up to 2 years pay and, now and then, up to 5 years with a golden parachute. Personnel who commit theft often think that they can outsmart the company and will be defensive right away. At the end of the dismissal meeting, you have covered all bases with the employee so both you and the jobholder should fully understand why the firing occurred. However, you don't have to inform the employee of this right, and the representative can only be a worker, not an attorney-at-law or someone outside the company. In several court cases, juries have signaled that giving "one chance" for gross misconduct is fair and reasonable for long-tenured workers. Don't ever blame a worker who's no longer with the firm for the business's troubles.