{"id":10087,"date":"2021-10-04T05:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2021-09-12T18:30:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T23:30:56","slug":"how-to-avoid-wrongful-termination-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/how-to-avoid-wrongful-termination-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid wrongful termination lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is based on Canadian law, and offers sound advice for protecting employers when handing employee terminations.\u00a0 Developing and maintaining a consistent workplace policy is key.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/ca\/specialization\/employment-law\/how-to-avoid-wrongful-termination-lawsuits\/309518?utm_source=GA&#038;utm_medium=20210909&#038;utm_campaign=HRDCW-Newsletter-20210909&#038;utm_content=1116943F-0EC0-4D62-AF69-6CF0303544DF&#038;tu=1116943F-0EC0-4D62-AF69-6CF0303544DF\">How to avoid wrongful termination lawsuits<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Read more: Want happier workers? Be financially transparent When considering terminations &#8216;for good reason&#8217;, Borrelli cautions employers to move carefully but decisively. &#8220;If an employer has a good reason to terminate an employee &#8216;on the spot&#8217; &#8211; or in other words, to terminate an employee without notice &#8211; I encourage employers to both (a) review their policies and (b) complete a full investigation into the reason for that termination.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is based on Canadian law, and offers sound advice for protecting employers when handing employee terminations. Developing and maintaining a consistent workplace policy is key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn-res.keymedia.com\/cms\/images\/us\/036\/0292_637667825473670176.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"How to avoid wrongful termination lawsuits","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,52],"tags":[161,116,527,117,53,41],"class_list":{"0":"post-10087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-hr","9":"tag-communication","10":"tag-employee_management","11":"tag-employee_terminations","12":"tag-employees","13":"tag-humanresources","14":"tag-small_business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10088,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions\/10088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}