Tag: termination

When videos showing rioters storming the US Capitol surfaced on social media, little did some of the rioters know that their companies would terminate...

Deutsche Bank’s retail banking sector plans to close 200 branches over the next two years. This means, about a 100 branches of Deutsche Bank...

Over 1,400 members of Google’s workforce have come together to protest the firing of Timnit Gebru, technical co-lead at the technology company’s ethical artificial...

The pandemic has led to a majority of the workforce working from home. With remote working come several challenges, most of which revolve around...

About 650 employees from the 1000-strong workforce of GVK-Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) have been served termination notices quite unexpectedly, on September 11. Apparently...

There has been a trend for companies, be it small organisations or big, to lay off people in the name of restructuring. While companies...

A ruling by a two-judge HC bench states that charges cannot be levelled against employees working on fixed-pay contract without a proper departmental inquiry. The...

HDB Financial Services has asked almost 150 employees to resign following a performance review. However, the employees who were asked to submit their resignations...

Despite notices issued by the Maharashtra government that employers should refrain from laying off employees during the lockdown, US-based travel company, Fareportal, has gone...

Resignations can be of two types, voluntary and involuntary. In the former, employees leave on their own for various personal reasons. In the latter,...

Taking strict action against its employees for violating company policy and participating in activism at work, Google has terminated one employee and sent two...

An employee, who was terminated for misconduct at Ford India’s plant at Sanand, Gujarat, happened to be a union leader too, and therefore, his...

Having been terminated from their jobs, contractual nursing officers of Safdarjung hospital, New Delhi, sat outside the residence of Union Health Minister Dr Harsh...

An ex-employee of Netflix has filed a lawsuit against the Company, wherein she accuses the American media services provider of terminating her after she...

Alliance Air did not renew the contract of its air hostess, Chitra Sharma, who was on sick leave due to back pain.

James Damore’s memo resulted in his ouster.

They were held responsible for having caused grave loss to the company and its stakeholders.

Loss of job is undoubtedly an emotional time when people feel alone, scared and vulnerable. It is important for an employer to smoothen the termination process, show compassion and empathy and re-instate trust. The employees must see the decision as a necessity for business rather than a witch hunt!