Employee Misconduct - EMI set to cut up to 2,000 jobs: reports (Reuters)

Reuters - Music company EMI, home to Robbie Williams and Coldplay, will cut up to 2,000 jobs as part of a restructuring being planned by its private equity boss Guy Hands, Sunday newspapers reported. Continue

As the Senate prepares to tinker with the nation?s patent laws this spring, it?s worth recalling the law of unintended consequences. Continue
o The higher the termination risk, the higher the chance you'll lose the law suit. Unless the action is an extreme offense that calls for immediate termination, you'll need to build a substantial case when it comes to firing personnel for misconduct. With a release, the employee agrees not to sue you in return for a better-than-normal severance package. This means bungling the termination meeting leads to an angry employee. Never try to layoff a worker "on the fly." You're opening yourself up to legal issues and giving the employee ammunition to argue about her or his layoff. This is a 30-day chance to improve for each warning level. o You gave the employee chances (usually 2 or 3 chances are enough) and reasonable time to improve. This will affect how your remaining personnel view you. The dismissal of employees is an unpleasant task for any supervisor. Most workers respond well to a manager respectfully correcting a performance problem before it gets worse. Under the Federal Employee Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, mostly known as WARN, you must provide advance notice of mass dismissals and plant closings to employees within 60 days of the termination.

Dismissal Risk is the probability the fired worker will sue you coupled with the chance you'll lose the court case. o It allows time to do a thorough probe, evaluate the evidence and write the investigatory report. With this number of laws, no wonder managers these days feel frightened, worried and cautious whenever they face difficult employees needing separation. Therefore, you must watch for a jobholder that has difficulty concentrating or following directions, as this worker may develop into a major problem for you and your business.