along with the employee’s missed dates of work. Include a notice that if the employee doesn’t respond to the letter within a week, their absence will be considered job abandonment.
How well you define job abandonment in your employee handbook (if you did at all), and what you say when communicating with the employee who stopped showing up makes a difference. It can determine if what had been job abandonment is now a reason to file for unemployment for being fired. ...
the employer generally considers this job abandonment and terminates employment. The employer can call the employee, send a letter describing the company’s absenteeism policy or simply remove the employee from the payroll.
Terminating an employee is never an easy task, regardless of the reason. Knowing that you have the potential to seriously impact another person's livelihood might cause you to second-guess your decision to discharge an employee with a bad attitude. However, an employee who has an attitude that...