Employers will find it is worth the time and effort to become familiar with best practices for reducing risk when terminating employees.

Question: If we offer unlimited paid time off (PTO) and employees don’t accrue PTO, do we have to pay anything out at ...

Court declines to block more firings of recently hired staff, saying individual agencies are now making their own decisions.

I’ve been asking (begging) managers to document their conversations they’ve had with employees about performance issues.

The notices went out to over 1,300 Education Department employees on Thursday. Over 1,300 federal employees impacted by the Department of Education's March 11 reduction in force received their ...

The director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency said a government employee he fired thanked him for the dismissal because, the worker allegedly said, the job was unnecessary. On Wednesday ...

Alameda Health System was ordered to pay $2.4 million to former Highland Hospital morgue employee Daniel Ridge in a wrongful termination suit after he was fired during a medical leave to address ...

Employees shared letters stating “(failure) to demonstrate fitness or qualifications for continued employment,” was grounds for their termination. Then in March, the probationary employees ...

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I hear you.” Microsoft, in the termination notice, told Aboussad the accusations were “hostile, unprovoked and highly inappropriate.” Both employees worked as software engineers, they told ...