Welcome to the how of business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business.

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This is Henry Lopez, and welcome to this episode of the how of business.

This will be a short

topic episode and it's on the topic of firing an employee. It's a topic that we have not

discussed specifically on this show yet and I thought it was overdue to discuss this. Just

about everybody, every business owner I talk to, whether it's someone I know or one of my business

coaching clients or even ourselves and owning our businesses, firing an employee is never an

easy thing or usually not an easy thing. And what I find and observe is that we all tend to

sometimes get hung up with the emotional side of it, the wanting not to have to do that.

We get hung up with wanting to save that person maybe or give them another chance.

And all the time, what it's really doing is it's hurting our business.

If nothing else, it's probably greatly impacting in a very

negative way, the culture of your business. So how do we go about it? I'm going to share with you how

I go about it and how my partner, David Beginn and I go about it in the different businesses that I

own and that I've owned in the past.

And I don't have a perfect formula for it, but these are things that I've worked well for me and that I've learned from others. I will say right off the top that you should always have consulted

with an attorney, an employment attorney specifically in your state.

Every state has slightly different rules and laws.

And then of course there are federal rules and laws.

And so you want to make sure that whatever process you follow and that you develop and follow for your business,

that it's in line legally so that you don't create a bigger problem by terminating

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