July 11, 2008
At Will Employment - PennFuture Holds "Exit Interview" with DEP Secretary Kathleen McGinty - Forbes
(To be safe, you should just read the lay off letter and stay away from offhand comments.) During this time, you've warned her 4 times in writing for terrible productivity and encouraged her to take several training classes which she never showed up for. During such proceedings, the employee will claim the layoff was illegal. However your standards will aid you avoid this. In such cases, you must get help from a private investigator. 1) Probably this problem worker has good productivity evaluations done by your predecessor. Don't go back and document incidents and poor performance from months and years ago.
If called on to terminate an executive level worker, a personnel individual should view it as a challenge, but also as an opportunity. In most lay offs, the risk is low because you have satisfactory documentation why the layoff is occurring and most fired workers are unlikely to sue. If you're considering corporate outplacement services, understand that they not only provide help with the termination program but also with the dismissal package you will offer, and other details. But, you could also dispute the claim based on the other disqualifiers mentioned earlier in this report. Employee Exit Form Interview for Small Businesses. I know this may go against your principles, but it's a reasonable business decision when the troublemaker is costing the company lost time, lower esprit de corps, lost performance, regulatory fines and legal hassles. A difficult employee can become a difficult adversary after they are gone. After your eyewitnesses have testified, the jobholder will tell his side of the story.
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future (PennFuture) today released an "exit interview" with Secretary of Environmental Protection Kathleen McGinty, taped as word of her resignation spread through the state. The video interview was conducted by PennFuture Continue