What is employee separation and its two types?

Also explain that what actions

can be taken by an organization to fire the unwanted staff?

Employee Separation

The employee separation is process of separation of employment or process of managing

the employment cycle end both voluntarily and involuntarily. It is a process of efficiently
terminating the worker. Sometimes the changes in environments and market comes due to which
the companies are forced in order to reduce the number of employees from the company. Just as
the situation of corona emerged due to which people are forced to stay at their homes because of
lockdown and companies are forced to reduce the number of employees within the company.
Just as number of companies including Fauji Fertilizer, and National Logistic Cell went for
reducing number of employees with them.

Types of Employee Separation

There are two types of employee separation; voluntary and involuntary. The voluntary
separation is a process in which the employee leaves the companies willingly. It normally begins
with a request which is given by employee to the employee with either a professional reason
including better position or place or any personal reason which can be any wedding or health
related matter. Voluntary separation includes voluntary quit, resignation, job abandonment and
retirement. When an employee voluntarily wants to leave the company he should provide the
company with a written notification about his separation almost 2 weeks before he wants to leave
in order to let the company find replacement.

Involuntary separation happens due to different reasons which are beyond purview of an
employee including health problem just as corona, dengue, or any other disease, behavioral
problems and organizational problems when company is forced to make employees leave the
company. The involuntary separation might include termination for poor performance or
misconduct, layoff, company closure and any disability. Before involuntarily separating an
employee from company, the employer should pay attention to the federal and state labor laws
and ensure that their act is as per them. Along with that a complete separation notice should be
given to employees in order to inform him/her about company’s intentions instead of informing
on the very last day.

Actions to be taken for Removal of Unwanted Staff

The different methods for firing unwanted staff includes following five methods:

1. Retirement: when company realizes that a person has reached his age limit which meets
the requirement of compulsory retirement and is not contributing to company to that
extent as of before or when an employee is found as guilty in any of his work and he is
having age close to retirement, or when an employee gets disable due to any certain
disease or accident, he/she can be given a golden shake hand and retired from company.
2. Dismissal: when an employee does something wrong within a company which caused
damage to company or any employee and employer generally choses it better for
employee to leave the company.
3. Layoff: when a company realizes that a certain is not contributing to company or its
presence is just unnecessary in company, then employer goes for deciding either
temporary or permanent suspension of that certain specific post.
4. Retrenchment: when a company improves its machinery or brings changes in working
layout of company thus leading to layoff of certain specific employees of company. The
involuntary separation is part of retrenchment which is replacement of labor by
machinery.
5. Rightsizing: when the company goes for restructuring or reorganizing the company by
reduction of workforce, in order to let the company run properly and achieve maximum
profit.