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Get rid of wrongful terminations once and for all

Are you confident about conducting lawful employment terminations? Take this quiz to find out. Click below to see answers.

  1. Employers can stop employees from filing wrongful termination claims.
    1. True
    2. False
  2. Your company can best avoid wrongful termination claims by ensuring:
    1. Terminations are conducted lawfully.
    2. Terminations are conducted with business justification in cases where employees otherwise might be protected.
    3. Both of the above
  3. Company policies are important, but it’s sometimes necessary to treat employees differently, or apply different levels of discipline for similar offenses under the same or similar circumstances.
    1. True
    2. False
  4. Discipline and terminations should be handled in private.
    1. True
    2. False

Get rid of wrongful terminations once and for all: Answers

  1. False. Although employers cannot stop employees from filing claims, employers can take steps that may prevent employees from doing so.
  2. Both of the above.
  3. False. An investigator or judge may infer from such differential treatment that the employer had a discriminatory or otherwise unlawful motive.
  4. True. In most cases, a second neutral party (such as a representative from human resources) should be present during a discipline or termination hearing. In no case should such a hearing be conducted in the presence of co-workers.