What is the name of your state? WI
We recently had an employee termination her employment with us.
On a friday, myself- a member of management, and the owner of the company had a discussion with this employee about her poor performance over the last year (there had also been many smaller one on one discussions regarding this). We told her that we would like to keep her, but that the level of work she had been providing was not equivalent to the level of pay she had been receiving. We asked that she take a temporary pay cut, until she could prove she was capable and inclined to do the work we needed her to do.
On sunday night she left a message on the voicemail stating that she could no longer work for us. She then filed for unemployment. We related the situation to the unemployment people. They denied her claim. this was all about a month ago.
Yesterday we received a phone call for a reference for this employee. We really, in good conscience, can not give her a positive reference. Does anyone have info on what legally we can say? We of course have no intention of bashing her in any way, but she was applying for a position at the same level she had here, which she could obviously not handle the responsibilities of.
Any info or links would be greatly appreciated.
We recently had an employee termination her employment with us.
On a friday, myself- a member of management, and the owner of the company had a discussion with this employee about her poor performance over the last year (there had also been many smaller one on one discussions regarding this). We told her that we would like to keep her, but that the level of work she had been providing was not equivalent to the level of pay she had been receiving. We asked that she take a temporary pay cut, until she could prove she was capable and inclined to do the work we needed her to do.
On sunday night she left a message on the voicemail stating that she could no longer work for us. She then filed for unemployment. We related the situation to the unemployment people. They denied her claim. this was all about a month ago.
Yesterday we received a phone call for a reference for this employee. We really, in good conscience, can not give her a positive reference. Does anyone have info on what legally we can say? We of course have no intention of bashing her in any way, but she was applying for a position at the same level she had here, which she could obviously not handle the responsibilities of.
Any info or links would be greatly appreciated.