Management & Discipline of Employees
A standard employment agreement between an employer and employee creates an understanding that an employee will perform their duties, and in exchange will be paid by the employer.
As an employer, how should you react to an employee that fails to perform as expected? Should you confront that employee immediately with termination, or avoid any confrontation and allow the worker’s habits to continue?
Instead of resorting to an immediate termination or turning a blind eye to the poor conduct, employers can opt to discipline the employee and attempt to improve their performance in the workplace.
How We Can Help
An employment lawyer at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP will expertly guide you through the steps that you must take in order to properly discipline an employee, before rushing to fire the employee for cause. If you have not taken proper steps to address the situation, you may be opening yourself up to wrongful dismissal.
Employers should create and observe thorough workplace policies that are designed to assist an employee who is experiencing difficulty with their performance. A Performance Improvement Plan can set reasonable expectations for the employee in order to help them improve their results in the workplace. It is when an employee fails to achieve those well-defined goals that a for cause dismissal can be explored.
Before you take any action, consult our helpful and experience employment law team. The employment lawyers at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Ottawa have years of experience working with small businesses and large corporations to identify poor workplace performance, and take corrective measures.
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