Managing Personnel - Firing

Florida is an "at will" state which means...

an employer may fire, demote, hire, promote and discipline employees for pretty much any reason or no reason at all

constructive discharge

an employee who is forced to resign due to actions and conditions so intolerable or aggravated at the time of his resignation that a reasonable person in the employee's position would have resigned, and whose employer had actual or constructive knowledge of the intolerable actions and conditions of their impact on the employee and could have remedied the situation, but did not, is constructively discharged

formal written warnings for discipline usually start with the _________________________

performance improvement plan (PIP)

formal warnings should include:

identification of the problem, facts for documentation that resulted from a prior investigation, identification of any company or departmental violations, plan for improvement

personal improvement plan is NOT

punishment, administered in the heat of the moment, a way to exit employees

purpose for exit interview

to pinpoint areas of concern and provide a foundation for implementing changes