You must print it on company letterhead. Terminating this worker is important to protect your other employees, your workplace productivity, and most importantly, your sanity. The written notification template we provided shows simple and formal way to tackle misbehaving or errant workforce. This notice is an important legal document if a former employee files a wrongful separation suit against the business. This is true even with a professional and confidential investigation. The difficult worker, it is a supervisor's worst nightmare. Therefore, it is important that you always keep your sacking workforce manual up-to-date. These costs could include performance inefficiencies, poor worker morale or the emotional toll of the problem worker's behavior. Other workers, however, may merit such consideration, and a short letter of recommendation may take the edge off the unpleasant circumstance. The only exception is when the jobholder has a legitimate reason for the overwhelming misbehavior. Therefore, keep your evidence and the jobholder's workers file for at least this long. Please see at Tool #3 "Fill-In-the Blank Notifications" in the employee Lay off Toolkit (attached to the end of this book).

Tell the worker you're giving this "short-cycle" performance review to give him a chance to increase and understand your new directives. The bruised feelings of the former employee may express themselves in ways that damage the company. Most managers do not like writing letters of reprimand.