Firing Employee Safely Without Fear Of Lawsuit

Firing employee and protecting yourself from a wrongful termination suit

In the early years of our country, you could make your mind up on firing an employee and tell him, “You’re fired,” and there wasn’t much he could do about it. This ended in early 1900s with the beginning of the labor movement and national labor laws.

Since the early 1900’s more laws have been created. There are now at least 39 laws that shield an employee from employers with terminating plans. Even companies with only 3 workers must comply with employment laws. These regulations and laws can be local, state or federal.

Whether you are a small, medium or large company, every worker you have has some form of defense against termination. For example, you can’t terminate a staff member because she’s pregnant, disabled or sick all the time. You can’t even terminate her if she leads a revolt to overthrow your leadership of the department or business … the law entirely protects her.

With the current legally created job security, you just can’t say, “It’s not working out.” When you do, the staff member will believe you are terminating her for an unlawful and will want to file a “revenge” lawsuit.

The next thing you know, you’ll find yourself in the witness stand with 12 members of the jury looking down at you and the terminated worker’s attorney making you look worse than Genghis Khan.

Basically you’re trapped in a box and it’s almost impossible to terminate a worker without the possibility of an expensive trip to the courthouse. But, you can get out of the box when you know how. A reliable place you can get this knowledge is the Employee Termination Guidebook. It has easy-to-follow options and procedures for terminating an employee.

You should get this information now before you proceed further with disciplining and terminating your problem worker. Or, there is a good chance you are putting your company and your career in jeopardy. To find out how to terminate properly and safely, click firing employee procedures.

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