Questions tagged [termination]
For questions about termination of employment, typicall for cause (firing). See tag info for details. Contrast with layoff and quitting.
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Falsified Time Sheets [closed]
Edited * Question put on hold by community due to specificity of the question. To be clear I am not looking for someone to tell us what to do with said employee. I did edit the Title to remove the ...
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Disgruntled employee releases salary information upon departure, I'm underpaid compared to my peers [duplicate]
One of our IT members got fired today, before his departure he sent a company wide email with details of employee salaries. Based on the information contained within this document I've discovered that ...
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Fired from job - left my Gmail, Stack Exchange, LinkedIn, and other personally owned accounts logged in. How do I proceed?
I left my company on bad terms yesterday. I was ordered to leave immediately, take my documents, never come back to the company, and even to never meet my boss in life outside work.
The problem is ...
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Legality of Termination [closed]
I am assuming that in any American corporation, either the employer or employee can terminate their relationship at any time. Here are questions that I have:
Is it legal for a company to ...
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Grounds for terminating contractors
Suppose a person is doing an incredible job at work (e.g. being very productive and coming up with innovative ideas). Let's assume that this person is a contractor for this company. Are there cases ...
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Personal phones used for company business
If I used my personal cell phone to conduct business for my employer and they pay partial for the bill can they keep my phone upon termination?
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Termination of position before starting [closed]
I accepted and signed a contract to be a nanny for 2 months in Chicago. Today I was informed that they will be staying in Cleveland and will not need my services.
These two items were in my ...
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Are there negative repercussions from resigning without notice? [closed]
I would like to resign from my role at a multi-national corporation immediately, without notice. I’m worried, however, that this could impact my future opportunities, especially an opportunity in ...
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Can an employer retract pay/take other action for missed days of a contract after a contract is completed?
I recently completed a 6-month part-time contract as an instructor with a company in the for-profit education space. They don't have a written PTO policy, but generally, we've requested substitute ...
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How can I explain being fired for cause in future interviews?
I was recently fired for cause. My termination was due to a singular issue at the end of my tenure, otherwise I was in good standing with my previous employer (for 32 years).
I'm concerned that being ...
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What legal action can be taken when you feel you were unfairly dismissed
I'm in Sydney, Australia. I was dismissed after less than 4 months working for this company, my probation period was set for 6 months. The thing is, I was hired as a software developer, but after a ...
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My task was reassigned to an intern, from my superior who is on vacation
I am working part-time in a small team, where my task is relatively isolated from the others' work.
My supervisor is currently on vacation. At the beginning of this month, an intern started working ...
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Probably terminated or laid off soon; confront or not?
TL;DR:
Saw some stuff that seems to mean I'll be soon laid-off; confront them about the fact I saw it or wait for the other shoe to drop? Put in effort at current place, or on interviewing?
To stave ...
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Went to a big 4 but got fired for underperformance in a year recently - Now every one thinks I'm pro - How to balance expectations?
My problem is basically as above: Went to a big 4 but recently got fired for underperformance within a few months of joining (couldn't handle the over work). However, every one now thinks I'm pro ...
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Betrayed by management at a new job, should I take action?
I have joined a new workplace several months ago as a software engineer, for a very software-centric project. The quality of code there was extremely poor when I arrived, but I did not let it bother ...
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Declined very good offer to stay with signed offer, 2 days later my future employer told me that they would not move forward to hire me
I am encountering a very weird and awful situation. I got one job offer let say Company A and signed their contract. But they asked me to start after 2 months later. After one month, I was invited to ...
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Can they fire me for placing a grievance about my manager?
I'm an employee in the United Kingdom; I placed a grievance about my manager and a member of HR after an incident took place.
Instead of my managing director investigating it fairly she is ...
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I've voluntarily left my company and they've sent me a termination certification. Do I have to sign it?
The termination certification has me state I've returned all equipment (I have), that I haven't broken my mobile device (was never issued one), and that I'll continue to be bound by various rules in ...
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What is the difference between being terminated for non disciplinary reasons vs disciplinary?
Is there a difference between disciplinary versus non-disciplinary termination when applying for unemployment?
I worked for my company and requested workplace accommodations. The employer denied them ...
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When asked if I've been fired before, should I count times were probationary period hadn't ended?
A while ago I was fired for just cause. They gave me no warning and did it to several other employees. I tried to dispute it with the labor board. I was told the company I had worked for provides a ...
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Fired employee allowed to go to company picnic
I worked for a company for over 3 years and was fired (not for cause). My daughter works there as well. It's time for the company picnic and she wants me to go with her (she is unmarried and high-...
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interviewing for new team during pre-termination hearing process
Last 6 months, I joined a known tech company. The team is located in a new site. In the meanwhile there is one team - which I joined, that counts 4 employees including the manager. I've done ...
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Redundancies, but told you will be ok by the CEO (UK)
My friend's company is making redundancies but she has been told by the CEO when he was on a visit to their office, that she (and her entire satellite office) will be OK however 50% of them are on ...
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Sudden termination for indefinite time for health recovery [closed]
First of all, this is my first company. I have been here for more than one and a half year. I've been under pressure to take leave for an indefinite time for health recovery due to my poor health. I ...
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Would it be ethical to privately tell a colleague that our boss will probably fire him soon? [duplicate]
Big IT company.
Today, my colleagues of our team project (5 people) except one developer (let his name be John) and I were invited to talk with our boss.
It gets out that our boss wants to replace ...
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How should I “sell” losing my job due to chemistry issues? [duplicate]
I'm in software development in South America. At my current position I've been told many times that my performance is great. And my objective results are great. Basically, I can do the job and I can ...
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My boss wants to get rid of me - what should I do?
Brief story: I work as IT support in a bank. I am an analyst who just graduated from university and my boss is a VP
10-May-2019: My boss told me they will put me on an informal "performance ...
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I have a problematic assistant manager, but I can't fire him
I'm the general manager of a restaurant in a franchise and I've held this position for about 6 months. The company hired me from outside the corporation so I'm still learning about the business.
As ...
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Fired from internship for insubordination. How to deal with future job interviews? [duplicate]
Interned at a midsize private company for about 10 months, mainly doing tasks in Excel. My boss asked if I was available over the summer and I said yes. They pitched a new and very complicated project ...
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HELP! I shared a confidential offer letter from job A with another company (job b). Will I lose my offer? [closed]
I recently was given a very generous offer from a well known company (Company A) that I was thrilled to get. At the same time, I was interviewing with job B, which was taking some time, even after ...
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Would It Be wrong if I stopped doing what isn’t required of me?
So basically, I work at a private chiropractic office/physical rehab clinic for about 7 years now. My job title at the start has been “floater” (whatever that means) and throughout the years my tasks ...
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Should I offer contact to my former employer when inquiring about the status of a job interview after a dismissal?
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For my training as a psychotherapist I have to complete a one year internship as a psychologist in a psychiatric clinic. My first employer has terminated my contract at the end of ...
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Is it legal for my employer to ask me to work without contract? [closed]
My full-time contract has expired 2 months ago. My employer told me that I have to convert my contract to a permanent role as I have completed more than 2 years with the company.
So I continued ...
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How does being on a PIP affect my relocation bonus and future business trip?
Last year, I moved to a different state of the US to start a new job. The company gave me a signing bonus to assist with the relocation. If I leave the company within 2 years of starting, my offer ...
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Can an employer terminate a contract prior to the start date? [closed]
I signed a teaching assistant contract a month before the starting date and did processing government employment requirement with expenses. Two weeks before start of work, employer said to discontinue ...
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How do I communicate my peer's incompetence to our manager?
I have been at my current job about a year (hired fresh out of college). About six month ago my manager left and I came under the management of another senior lead (who was not formerly focused ...
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If forced to answer “yes” or “no” for having being fired when applying to job, what to do if you were unjustly fired?
I was reminded of this question from How to answer "Have you ever been terminated?"
Awhile ago I was fired for just cause. I still think it was unfair and was looking into legal actions, ...
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Got fired, accepted an old offer, now they are doing a background check, what should I do?
I received an offer to relocate abroad when I was working for some company. I got fired some time after receiving this offer. Then, I accepted the relocation offer without disclosing I had been ...
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I left before payday - now i'm being told I owe money? [closed]
First off i'm really sorry if this sounds stupid, I'm just really not educated in this area.
So i started a new job at the start of January - after a 3 weeks it was clear it wasn't for me, and so I ...
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What is normal when you get fired from a larger company?
Last week I was fired from a 500+ person company for reasons I won't talk much about, but it was on the verge of a wrongful termination. Let's just say my old boss lied to get me fired since he didn't ...
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Company not paying my last paycheck, what do I do?
I was recently let go from my job. Their HR advised they would like both parties to leave on good terms. However, I have not received my last paycheck that was legally supposed to be provided to me in ...
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What to tell your next employer if you are being bullied into resigning from your current role?
Following on from this question I received a written warning for my performance, how can I save my job? where the person asking received a warning letter and later resigned, I am in a similar ...
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Is it appropriate for managers to emphasize that tasks cannot be completed after multiple employees have left team?
In our team one person was let-off last year. That person wasn't replaced and the work down was absorbed by the remaining team members. It got hectic.
Then there was another team that was working on ...
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How to justify the need for knowledge transfer
I have 7 outsourced employees and 2 employees with a yearly contract. Management wants to get rid of 5 of the outsourced employees as soon as possible and replace them with 5 new outsourced employees ...
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Terminating IT contractor [closed]
Hi we recently took on an IT contractor at a senior level, he did pass a coding test and was interviewed and discussed technologies we used to see if he was familiar with them, which he said he was.
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Sacked due to undisclosed DBS [closed]
Hi I'm wondering if anyone can help.
I started work as a support worker adults in feb19 injax to have a DBs I has a conviction of benefit fraud due to selling my own items on eBay it was classed as ...
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Forced resignation/sexual + religous harassment + injury [closed]
I applied and got a job around Thanksgiving, but I turned down the offer. The company gave my resume to a manager from a different company anyway. I was contacted a week before Christmas of 2018 ...
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Called into a meeting and told we are being made redundant (laid off) and “not to share outside”. Can I tell my partner?
As title. Just been told we are being laid off, and asked to keep it confidential from anyone outside this room.
They sent us home "to absorb the news".
Is it really the case that we cannot tell ...
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Employer asked to leave first, then gave 6 months to improve [closed]
My friend work in a small size software company - 15 employees(lets say X) went through a strange situation today, he was asked first by the employer (Lets say Boss B) that If he can leave the company ...
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Easiest way to sack a developer who is on probation but isn't performing
My friend, a non-technical manager, has a software developer employee who was hired 5 months ago and is still on probation (6 months probation). The employee was given a task with estimate for 4 ...
