Best Practices Workshop: How to Terminate an Employee

Employee termination is one of the most stressful events confronting business owners, managers, and supervisors.  Whether it be due to poor performance, policy violation, or resignation, an employee termination causes significant impact onto a company:  filling the vacancy, modifying the workload until the position is filled, onboarding the new employee, etc.  While those administrative tasks are demanding, they pale in comparison to a potential wrongful termination claim that could present itself if the actual termination process is conducted improperly.

Given today’s litigious work environment, landscapers must be well-equipped with legal, efficient, and fair procedures for ensuring all employee terminations are conducted with the company’s best interests in mind.  Given the inevitability of eventual employee terminations somewhere throughout the company, likely to happen sooner than you think, it is imperative that business owners prepare their team to conduct that process in a consistent, professional manner.  Rest assured:  There are best practices that companies should adopt to navigate through this highly-complex administrative and legal process.

Here are some of the Best Practices that will be presented during the How to Terminate an Employee Workshop:

• Examples of Wrongful Termination
• Corrective Action Procedures
• Key Termination Documents
• Top 40 Things to Consider Before Terminating an Employee
• The Termination Process
• What to Do and What Not to Do When Conducting an Employee Termination
• The Three Phases of the Termination Meeting
• Final Paycheck Considerations
• An Overview of Separation Agreements and Severance Packages

This Best Practices Workshop delivered by Harvester Steve Cesare, Ph.D. focuses on actual employee termination procedures, questions, and issues drawn directly from staff, managers, and owners in the Green Industry.