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Employee Job Termination

When performance improvement isn't working, you may need to help an employee leave your employ. Employment ends for positive reasons such as a new job, a resignation or retirement. But, employment also ends for more negative reasons such as layoffs, downsizing, job termination or firing. Whatever the reason for the employee's job termination, here's help for you to manage the employee's job termination. Take a look.
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Getting Fired or Laid Off?

Employment termination - no matter the cause - is scary, disorienting, and disruptive to habitual patterns. Getting fired is never fun; layoffs are equally disheartening. In either scenario, your feelings of self worth are dealt a blow. Just when you need a positive outlook to help you find your next opportunity, you feel dizzy as if your whole...

Buyout

Buyouts are a common method for reducing the number and cost of employees. In a buyout, the employer offers some employees or all employees the opportunity to receive a large severance package in return for leaving their employment.

How to Handle an Employee Resignation

Want good advice about how to handle an employee resignation? These are the steps that you'll want to take when an employee resigns from your organization.

Employment Ending Checklist

Employees leave your organization for good and bad reasons. On the positive side, they find new opportunities, go back to school, retire or land their dream job. Less positively, they are fired for poor performance or poor attendance or experience a layoff because of a business downturn. In each instance, you need an employment termination...

Employment Termination

The decision to terminate or end an individual’s employment with your company carries with it the risk of a possible legal challenge. Depending upon an employer’s policies or whether an employee has an employment contract, an employee may, for example, have a breach of contract or “wrongful discharge” claim. Learn the right questions to ask before you terminate an employee's employment.

Employment Terminations – How To Avoid Legal Problems

The decision to terminate an individual’s employment carries with it the risk of a possible legal challenge. Depending upon an employer’s policies or whether an employee has an employment contract, an employee may, for example, have a breach of contract or “wrongful discharge” claim. Learn the right questions to ask before you terminate an...

I Just Lost My Job: How Am I Going To Tell My Kids?

Have you experienced a job loss through a layoff or downsizing? Job loss and a job search are painful and upsetting for most people. Additionally, parents must tell family members about the job loss and mitigate their fears about the family, the income and the job search. Here are ten tips.

Resignation Letter: Future Plans - Sample

Sample letter of resignation or a resignation letter for the human resources policy, checklist, procedure, and samples directory. This resignation letter informs your current employer of your future plans.

Severance Pay

Severance pay is money that an employer might want to provide for an employee who is leaving their employ. Normal circumstances that might warrant severance pay include layoffs, job elimination, and mutual agreement to part ways for whatever reason. Severance pay usually amounts to a week or two of pay for each year of service to the company. In...

Top Ten Reasons to Quit Your Job

Are you feeling increasingly unhappy about your job? Then, it may be time for you to quit your job. Or, address the issues that you dislike about your current career. Without leaving your job, you may be able to solve the problems. Take a look at these reasons to determine whether it's time to quit your current job. Perhaps you can identify...

Example Termination Letter for Cause

Need an example termination letter for cause? This example termination letter notifies an employee of his employment termination because of attendance problems. See more example termination letters.

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