May 7, 2007
Lay Off Employee - Please don't use 'downsizing' as an excuse for
Please don't use 'downsizing' as an excuse for separating bad employees, or creating a culture change in the department by replacing old personnel with new ones. o Challenging supervisor's authority. You should provide the WARN announcement to affected workforce or their representatives, such as a labor union.
o How to do employee firings and lay offs properly like an experienced separation professional. Otherwise, the worker or his legal counsellor will accuse you of discrimination. Part of these rules should be to meet with the bad individual. Once you have those standards, human resource insubordination handling should be clear and backed by strong discipline. Generally, giving the employee fair warning about the consequences of the gross misconduct will be enough to correct the situation. Otherwise, you'll look like you're "out to get" the disgruntled worker. Undoubtedly, if you are laying off the employee owing to the business's financial difficulties or owing to downsizing, you must explain this as well. This gives you an insurance policy against a legal action and in return the employees get attractive severance packages. You can still layoff workforce for misbehavior or violation of firm policy. Your first agreement with the salaried monthly employee may have included a severance package in the event of layoff. o For bad performance: You fairly evaluated the jobholder against a reasonable job standard or expectation. The jobholder might cry in the meeting.