Employee Relations

 90 Day Probationary Terminations

In memo form, provide your responses to the following items and send to: employeerelations@smu.edu.

  1. Request that the employee be terminated.
     
  2. Give employee’s date of hire and include any previously granted extensions.
     
  3. List all specific reasons for termination.
    (Do not include emotions or assumptions – focus on specific behaviors or actions.)
     
    • What exactly did the employee do or not do?
    • What were the specific behaviors of concern?
       
  4. Show how the above behaviors were a violation of job expectations.
     
  5. List all coaching sessions with the employee to correct his/her specific job concerns.
    (Dates and items discussed.)
     
  6. Describe any instances of the identified unacceptable behavior(s) that continued after the coaching session.

You should receive a call from a member of the employee relations team upon receipt of this memo in order to discuss the situation and to design a performance strategy.  If the termination is granted, be prepared to set a specific termination date and to complete a termination form.