Firing under grace
If you have to drop the ax on someone, “there’s a right way—and plenty of wrong ones—to go about it,” says Lisa LaMotta in Forbes.com. First, you’d better fire your employee right. “Cross one of many lines and you could be staring at a lawsuit,” even if you have just cause. If warnings and coaching fail, “corral an HR director” for the meeting: it should be after work hours and no longer that 15 minutes. “Don't elaborate on the problems.” And don’t publicly start searching for a replacement before the firing. “Discretion is the better part of dismissal.”
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