The Loss of Mutual Trust and Confidence Part I
With today's economic climate, many businesses are faced
with the need to overhaul their business in order to survive. This
often means a need to restructure their workforce and in some cases
may lead to termination of employees.
Restructuring a workforce or terminating employees raises a
myriad of issues when dealing with employees such as contractual
obligations, statutory obligations and the minefield of
implications that come from the policies and procedures put into
place by many businesses (or lack of them).
When terminating employees, a valid reason must exist for an
employer to be able to terminate them. The reason or reasons must
be based on the employee's poor performance, conduct or changes
to the operational requirements of the business resulting in a
genuine redundancy.
