A typical progressive disciplinary system starts with a verbal warning and culminates with a final written warning, which generally leads to an employee's termination. That's why it's referred to as ...

Where it appears appropriate and effective, the University will utilize a system of progressive discipline to address the remedy of situations where an employee demonstrates unacceptable conduct ...

Most employee handbooks say — in multiple places — that employment is at-will, meaning that the employer or the employee has the right to end the relationship at any time for any reason. Handbooks ...

In most non-tenure based settings, managers use “progressive discipline” to address many employee issues. Progressive discipline is the practice of establishing a series of steps of escalating ...

I am human, and I make mistakes. Despite considering myself a conscientious employee, I have accidentally left the office lights on when I went home, and I have occasionally arrived late for work in ...

Effective discipline is designed to help employees improve their performance, not punish them. It is based on just cause, which means that an employer has sufficient reason to take disciplinary action ...

New Hampshire follows the employee-at-will doctrine, which means that an employee can be fired with or without cause and with or without notice unless the employer fires the employee due to his or her ...

Most companies doing business on the Navajo reservation know the Navajo Preference in Employment Act (NPEA) is a unique statute. Unlike almost all other jurisdictions in the United States, the Navajo ...

Labor lawyer Lucas Middlebrook was on today's episode of The Wrestling Inc. Daily. Middlebrook has represented many different labor groups from airline workers to professional soccer referees and even ...

Under proposed rules, Los Angeles police officers who fail to explain why they escalate mundane stops into criminal investigations will be forced to undergo training and then face increasingly severe ...

Even when the standards for performance and behavior on the job are clearly communicated, most managers find themselves dealing with a problem employee at some point in their career. Dismissal might ...

The Find: Rather than going through the lengthy process of progressive discipline with an underachieving employee, better to simply fire those not meeting expectations straight away, argues ones HR ...