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welcome to employee termination tips my name is christopher neufeld of newfoundland legal and in this particular video we'll be discussing the notice of termination now what exactly is a notice of termination a notice of termination is generally designed and created by statute where an employer terminates an employee without cause and has to make in accordance with employment standards legislation a determination as to whether to pay them termination pay or to provide them with notice of termination and should they provide them with notice of termination they have a statutory obligation to have that employee continue working for a set period of time after the notice is provided during which time typically the employee is intended to start the process of looking for alternate employment nevertheless as with any activity during a termination process we have to look at the pros and cons or advantages and disadvantages associated with providing a notice of termination as opposed to providing termination pay and one of the few pros or advantages associated with notice of termination is it means that particular employee is still working so where there's not really the biggest concern about upheaval or problems with respect to that particular employee's performance then a notice of termination where the employer continues to work might make sense another possibility of a positive and this is only a possibility is the hope that that particular employee once notified of their termination but still operating within the notice period will in fact quit during the notice period and as such potentially relieve the employer of certain obligations however the reason that so many large companies do not provide these notices of termination but simply payout termination pay in lieu of notice is because there are an entire slew of problems that tend to arise with providing notice and continue to have that person working for the company what do these include well you have a disgruntled employee they create negativity in the workplace there's always a possibility that they might be retaliatory they might be upset furthermore they lack the necessary motivation they lack the interest in putting in the time the effort into the work because they're gone anyways they've been told they're not wanted anymore so what exactly is their work being sought for and the employer must ask themselves what kind of work are they getting is it of any quality furthermore it precipitates a potential for a likelihood of them asking for severance pay more likely they do not construe termination pay to have come to them so they look for other avenues of getting paid out meanwhile you're letting them have access to corporate resources their emails corporate databases confidential information as such you could have the potential breach of confidentiality you could have them subsume information to use in competition with yourself to solicit your existing clients your existing customers and you at the same time effectively need to allow them to pursue new job interviews interviews so that they might not necessarily be uh willing to be available at all the times you're looking for and you can't really effectively discipline them they know they're out they know they'll have to perform to the levels that somebody who's trying to protect their job would be doing so what are they going to do as such you really need to consider whether a notice of termination is the appropriate course of action if it really makes sense in the long scale things yes you do not need to pay out that individual immediately or as the statute requires and you pay them out over the time that would normally be paid out but is that worth your while we've gone through some of the pros and cons with many more cons and pros in this situation and that is why a lot of larger companies and even smaller companies make the decision to pay termination pay in lieu of notice as opposed to providing their form their outgoing employees would notice and still have them working during that notice period thank you