If an employer has exhausted all the necessary steps to help the employee improve his or her work performance – and those steps are not working – it may be time to terminate the employee.Terminating an employee is not only stressful for the employee losing a job, but also for the employer. There are legal, ethical steps to take when you terminate an employee. The company must ensure its actions are above reproach. How the company terminates an employee sends a powerful message not only to the terminated employee, but also to remaining staff, either positive or negative.

Flexible work programs are work arrangements wherein employees are given greater scheduling freedom in how they fulfill the obligations of their positions.  The most commonplace of these programs is flextime, which gives workers far greater leeway in terms of the time when they begin and end work, provided they put in the total number of hours required by the employer.  Other common flexible working arrangements involve telecommuting, job-sharing, and compressed work weeks.

An effective Onboarding program can mean the difference between retaining new hires or watching them walk out the door. Join Diane Dee on October 10, 2019 for her 90-minute webinar where participants will discover ways to develop an onboarding program that will assist their organization in reducing new hire turnover and increasing new hire effectiveness.