Employment Termination
Certain legal obligations and restrictions come into play when a company fires, lays off or otherwise ends the employer-employee relationship. Understanding a departing employee's COBRA insurance rights, when it's illegal to fire an employee, how to issue a final paycheck and other aspects of employment termination can help you avoid legal and regulatory exposure. This section provides legal primers, tips and resources about ending the employer-employee relationship.
- Firing Employees
Articles and resources to help employers terminate employees legally and tactfully
- Termination Basics
General overview of employee termination, including contract provisions and special protections
- Wrongful Termination Laws: Illegal Reasons
Basics of what constitutes a wrongful termination under federal law
- COBRA Continuation Health Coverage FAQ
Answers to common questions about COBRA health care continuation
- COBRA Continuation Health Coverage FAQ
- Creating an Enforceable Noncompete Agreement
- Departing Employee FAQ
- Employment Contract Law - Firing an Employee with a Contract
- Employment References - How to Avoid Getting Sued
- Final Paycheck Laws by State
- Firing an Employee - FAQ
- Firing Employees
- Non-Competition Agreements
- Non-Competition Agreements and the Law
- Sample Employment Termination Contract
- Severance Pay Laws: Does It Make Sense to Offer Severance Pay?
- Termination Basics
- Termination: Tools and Resources
- The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)
- Things to Consider When Firing Employees
- Withholding Money from Former Employees' Paychecks
- Wrongful Termination Laws: Illegal Reasons