CESSATION OF EMPLOYMENT

Mechanisms for the Cessation of Employment

Mechanisms for the Cessation of Employment

Introduction

Cessation of employment is as important to study as the recruitment and selection procedure as it contributes to discerning the way an organization relates to its employees. This paper aims to study the notion of cessation of employment of an employee with an organization. The paper identifies and describes various reasons that can be attributed to the form the basis for the termination of employment. The paper then discusses the exit procedure that is being used at two different organizations regarding the different reasons of termination. In the end, the paper includes the impact of legal and regulatory framework on the organizations' arrangement regarding the cessation of employment.

Discussion

Reasons of cessation of employment with an organization

The cessation of employment with an organization might occur owing to several reasons, moreover, the cessation can take place on the will of organization or employee or it may be as necessitated by the circumstances. This section discusses various reasons of cessation of employment with an organization. These includes the reasons such as the one in the cases of dismissal, termination, redundancy, redeployment or other reasons as described below.

Dismissal results in the cessation of employment, which occurs when an employer ends the employment of the employee without his or her, will. An organization can dismiss an employee on the basis of several reasons; however, these reasons have to be legally justified so that the dismissal is regarded as fair (Quinlan & Birt, 1995, pp. 5-6). The fair reasons on the basis of which the employer can dismiss an employee entail misconduct or unfair practices and behavior of the employee which results in infringement of rules, incapacity of the employee when the employee cannot execute his or her duties properly, because of disability, illness or other reasons and for operational rationales when it is the business need to dismiss certain number of employees (Magotsch & Kremp, 2010, pp.136). Dismissal may also take place if some statutory duty or restriction prohibits employee for continuing employment (ACAS, 2009, pp.04).

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Figure 1: Reasons for cessation of employment

Termination of employment can also occur at the will of the employee alone when he or she decides to resign from an organization. Resignation may be placed for many reasons such as employee feeling uncomfortable with the employer or organization or better opportunity (Quinlan & Birt, 1995, pp. 5-6). Another reason for the cessation of employment includes retirement when the employee reaches the legal age of the retirement; the employment with the organization is ended (Hor & Keats, 2010, pp.151-157). In addition to the above mentioned reasons, the employment with an organization also ends when the terms of the contract of the employee ends, when the organization is doing layoffs because of the redundancy of the workforce or when the organizational structure changes because of merger, buyouts or other organizational reasons (www.gov.uk).

Exit procedure of NHS Shetland and Tesco

At NHS Shetland, maximum efforts are done to ensure that any termination of employment with the ...