{"id":559,"date":"2010-09-16T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T03:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/?p=559"},"modified":"2016-08-04T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T12:07:25","slug":"managing-problem-employees-in-the-workplace-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/managing-problem-employees-in-the-workplace-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Problem Employees in the Workplace (Warnings Dismissal &#038; Summary Dismissal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Puzzle-Solving-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Puzzle Solving\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Puzzle-Solving-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Puzzle-Solving-1024x602.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span class=\"drop-cap\">W<\/span>e regularly take calls from clients seeking advice on how to best manage difficult situations where an employee is performing poorly or has engaged in serious misconduct.  These situations require the employer to confront the issues with the employee concerned and to ensure that their treatment of the employee concerned is such that the employee is afforded <strong>procedural fairness and natural justice<\/strong> and that the employers do not set themselves up for a successful unfair dismissal claim against them.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst disciplinary procedures are stressful for both the employer and the employee, they are not overly complex and so we have set out two fairly simple articles<!--more--> on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/bulletin\/\">Bulletin Board<\/a> to assist employers to get the process right when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/bulletin\/topic\/managing-problem-employees-in-the-workplace-summary-dismissal\">Managing Problem Employees in the Workplace (Summary Dismissal)<\/a> or when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/bulletin\/topic\/managing-poor-performance-in-the-workplace\">Managing Poor Performance in the Workplace (Warnings &#038; Dismissal)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing poor performance and serious misconduct in the workplace is stressful and disruptive and can lead to successful unfair dismissal claims against employers if these matters are not managed correctly.  Please read our <strong>guidelines<\/strong> on these important issues.<\/p>\n<a class=\"archives-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/managing-problem-employees-in-the-workplace-dismissal\/\" title=\"Managing Problem Employees in the Workplace (Warnings Dismissal &#038; Summary Dismissal)\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[53,55,54],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disciplinary-processes","category-troubleshoot-employees","tag-discipline","tag-dismissal","tag-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19188,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/19188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}