The time may come during your career as a business owner where you need to face the unpleasant task of terminating an employee. Reasons can include unacceptable performance or behavior exhibited by ...

A number of issues must be considered when notification of employee termination is concerned. In most instances of termination, the onus is on the employer to construct a statement that indicates the ...

Employee termination is the release of an employee against his or her will. Termination may be, at will, for cause, or for lack of work. The process is unavoidably painful: it imposes a certain degree ...

If a disabled employee on leave alerts you that he believes the company is not doing enough to find a vacant position he can perform, address the concern. If the employee is later terminated, and ...

In last week’s blog I provided seven tips for laying off good employees when a company must downsize to lower costs. This week, I have shifted the topic to terminating employees due to contentious ...

Wrongful termination happens when an employer fires an employee for an illegal reason. Although most terminated employees probably feel as though they were wrongfully let go, federal and state laws ...

Those are words that no employee ever wants to hear and that employers’ hope they rarely have to utter. In a period of more-than-full employment such as we are currently in, with an unemployment rate ...

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