You re Fired : Ways to Get Rid of Bad Government Workers
Public employers can t legally get rid of their employees as easy as Trump and his private-sector peers can. But there are ways to make it easier.
September 17, 2015 •
(AP/Chris Pizzello/Invision) How hard is it to dismiss a public-sector employee because he or she is incompetent, repeatedly earns complaints from the public or shows up late every day? We hear different responses from human resource officials and from the managers who want the employees dismissed.
HR people tend to emphasize that all a manager needs to do is keep proper documentation of bad behavior. But managers often tell us that the process of dismissal is arduous, if not impossible, unless the employee has engaged in egregious behavior like drinking on the job or waving a firearm around.