Do you need to contact an outside HR service center to manage the hiring or firing process?

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Given these emotional undercurrents, many managers let anxiety drive the firing process instead of intellect, making a difficult moment even worse.

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Any such deal was a "sham, " he said, because it wouldn't allow a teacher to receive two straight years of ineffective ratings, which would lead to their firing under an expedited process.

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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was directly involved in various stages of the process of firing eight U.S. attorneys, contrary to what Gonzales has publicly said, his former top aide told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

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After the firing, talk to your team about the process, the reasoning, and the implications for them (within the limits of confidentiality).

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Make sure that letting your employee go is the last step in a careful, thoughtful, fair, and transparent process that started long before the actual firing.

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Thomsen cited Aguirre's "inability to work effectively with other staff and his unwillingness to operate within the Securities and Exchange Commission process" as the reason for his firing in September 2005, weeks after Aguirre was given a positive review, but days before his one-year probationary period at the agency was to expire.

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Eddie Slovik, went through the process from confession to court-martial to sentence to execution by firing squad.

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This is the due process period put in place to ensure that the actual reasons behind firing the teacher are legitimate.

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