ought to we provide severance to a belligerent, hostile worker?
A reader writes:
I just lately needed to hearth a supervisor for a belligerent, profanity-laden outburst throughout a board assembly. He has not been doing his job and has been suspected to be ingesting or have been drunk whereas working (though no proof). To additional complicate issues, his supervisor has not achieved his job by documenting the issues and is now pushing me to offer some kind of severance for good will. Nevertheless, I really feel we’ve a termination with trigger for insubordination. What’s your suggestion on whether or not we have to pay severance on this occasion? He’s speaking to a lawyer relating to a attainable hostile office or wrongful termination lawsuit.
I reply this query — and two others — over at Inc. as we speak, the place I’m revisiting letters which were buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and generally updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.
Different questions I’m answering there as we speak embrace:
- My worker gave her pet the identical uncommon identify as a coworker’s new child
- How can I see what I’ll must signal as a brand new worker earlier than I settle for a proposal?