What should
you do after an employee gets fired?
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Losing a job is one of the toughest problems we
can ever encounter. In most cases, the employer must do necessary
actions when someone gets fired due to some reasons.
“You are fired.” This worn out message in the
business world has made millions of people cry and feel a lot of
regrets. But that is one tough reality that we cannot do away with in
any business. Company owners decide who to retain and who to fire,
based on some criteria.
When working in a company, there are rules to be
followed and some issues to give attention to, and these rules are
sometimes strict and do not provide much freedom. But these are made
for the whole organization’s benefit. Now, these rules are one of the
top reasons why a person gets fired. However, the firing does not
happen in an instant, most especially when the offense is not that
grave or a minor offense was done. Of course, the normal procedure of
giving verbal and written warnings is still being followed and other
solutions or disciplinary actions are left in the manager’s hands.
As a manager or head of a company, you may feel
the loss if someone was fired, particularly the person who has served
you for years but was unfortunately caught in a bubble. There are some
things that you may want to keep in mind when these people leave your
company. Read along to know more about them:
1. Give the employee his due employment benefits.
As what each company normally does, giving the terminated employee the
benefits he could get will somehow make him feel treated fairly. He
would not end up feeling that he lost everything. You may leave this
matter to the Administrative Assistant who knows more about this and
you can be guided accordingly.
2. Accomplishment of company clearance. Before an
employee totally walks out of your company door, make sure that all
company properties like, primarily, the company id must be surrendered
if it serves as a key to any particular place or department in your
company. And if you are really strict on information that goes out of
your office, you may ask the person to surrender any manuals or
documents that might contain unique business information, which you
have entrusted to him while he was working for you.
3. Keep things confidential. Firing someone is
also hard for managers. If the reason for terminating an employee
involves personal matters or a very embarrassing incident, then the
right thing to do is not to disclose the matter to people who are not
concerned. This would somehow give the employee privacy even after he
has left the company.
4. Store the records for future references. When
an employee is fired, do not throw out his records as well. These are
essential for future use when your company will be referred for
background checks. However, do not treat the terminated employee as a
criminal because of his records. You may release vital information as
to what the situation asks for.
Aside from these management issues you may take
into account when this happens to your company, there are other things
that you may have observed through daily business activities. Just
remember that you still need to be courteous enough since they are
still people who deserve to be treated fairly.
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