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June 5, 2008

Employee Termination - Bulgaria fears dirty money streaming in as foreign investment (AFP)

The smart way to fire employee

AFP - As EU newcomer Bulgaria aims to attract ever larger flows of foreign investment, authorities and analysts have raised fears that part of the money streaming into the country may have been laundered.


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In either case, you have much more legal exposure than with a low-risk layoff. If the worker has received good past job reviews, you must take more time with the termination. For specific language of these agreements, contact either an Human resources professional or an employment lawyer. If negotiations break down and a lawsuit is probably, let me give you a little trick to limit your damages. Include any escalating discipline steps you have taken or background to your investigation for gross misconduct. Let the worker know what criteria was used in making your decision and make sure that criteria was used uniformly. Date (This is especially important since the dismissal will begin immediately). If a business desires to refocus on its core firm, it may want to drop a whole business segment. In this case, you should negotiate a settlement and a release of claims before you separate.

At any given time during a business day, throughout the United States employers are calling wayward workforce into their office to give them the ax, the heave hoe, the old pink slip. If you terminate a worker for "cause," a clear, well-written statement of the grounds for the layoff will inhibit any future legal action by the employee. Even if your predecessor has recorded the disgruntled employee's lackluster performance and behavior, I still recommend you wait to sack until you have developed your own independent observations. Finally make sure you include the effective dismissal date, and any discussions you had about dismissal with the worker. An exit interview form should contain several questions that allow you to gain a better understanding of why the jobholder is leaving. Before you know it, you'll have an entire crew of bad employees rather than just one!

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The smart way to fire employee