Download or read book Fired Laid Off or Forced Out written by Richard C. Busse and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fired, Laid-Off or Forced Out takes the fear out of the possibility of losing your job and replaces it with specific guidelines any worker can use to protect his or her rights.
Download or read book It s Okay to Cry written by Maria Luz Quintana and published by K&K Communications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Okay To Cry contains 24 warm, compassionate stories that help people find hope and healing after the death of a beloved pet. The book includes the story of Lassie by Robert Weatherwax, Sr. and the stories of PD, Sparkle and Bear by Jack Hanna. The book also contains a 42-page journal for people to write their own story and share their memories of their beloved pets. The book is a self-contained support group for people who are grieving over the death of a beloved pet.
Download or read book What to Do when You are Fired Or Laid Off written by P. K. Fontana and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last several years, more than a million jobs have been lost in the United States, many of them due to the closure of plants, factories, or downsizing in shrinking companies. Millions more people have lost their jobs due to being fired, restructuring, or mergers in major corporations. Many thousands more are expected to lose their jobs in the year to come and that leads many to wonder what rights and benefits they have to help them recuperate and get back on their feet. This comprehensive guide to the laws and benefits provided to those individuals who have lost their jobs, for whatever reason, will help you discover exactly what you can do to ensure you have the resources you need to salvage your life and your career after losing a job. A complete listing of the requirements your employer is bound to and the legal implications of your particular situation will be provided in multiple chapters broken down to reflect the various situations in which you lost your job. If you were laid off due to a factory closing, you will be given advice on how much of your retirement benefits you are entitled to, how much notice your employer is legally required to provide you (as per the WARN act), and what you can do in the final 60 days to shore up future employment. If your company downsizes, you will be given detailed descriptions of the laws that apply to your workplace according to where you work and how long you have worked there. You will learn what opportunities the federal government provides to those who have lost their jobs, including unemployment benefits and welfare coverage. You will also learn about how you can take advantage of additional workforce training to further your technical skills. You will learn how to handle your taxes while unemployed. You will learn how to know if your firing was legal and if you have a legal basis to reproach your company for laying you off. If you were unfairly terminated, you will be shown how you can approach an attorney and what you need to provide to win your case. Finally, you will be shown which resources and tools are available to help you get back on your feet, finding a new job that utilizes your skills and training. You will learn how you can modernize your skill set with additional training, seek out hiring services, and supplement your income between jobs with temporary or part-time opportunities. Hours of expert opinions have been gathered into this book from hiring managers, employment lawyers, and other experts in the field to help you know exactly what rights you have and what you can do to recover. If you have been laid off, fired, or unfairly terminated, this book will provide you with everything you need to minimize the stress and suffering of your situation and get back on your feet in no time. Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company presidentâe(tm)s garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.
Download or read book Getting Fired written by Steven Mitchell Sack and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attorney who specializes in employees' rights presents a comprehensive, useful guide, free of legal jargon, to being fired, laid off, or forced to resign, outlining the best actions readers can take before, during, and after being out of work.
Download or read book What to Do When You Are Fired Or Laid Off written by Patricia Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide to the laws and benefits provided to those individuals who have lost their jobs, for whatever reason, will help you discover exactly what you can do to ensure you have the resources you need to salvage your life and your career after losing a job. A complete listing of the requirements your employer is bound to and the legal implications of your particular situation will be provided in multiple chapters broken down to reflect the various situations in which you lost your job. You will learn what opportunities the federal government provides to those who have lost their.
Download or read book Firing at Will written by Jay Shepherd and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firing at Will shows managers and employers how to do the most difficult part of their jobs: firing employees. Written by a leading employment lawyer in a refreshingly unlawyerly style, this guide takes the reader through the always-risky process of letting an employee go. Many employers and managers are afraid to pull the trigger when the employment relationship has broken down, and will postpone the decision by using progressive discipline and performance-improvement plans. However, an employer must be able to unload employees who threaten to undermine the company and its prospects, regardless of the risks involved in a termination. This book explains how to do it, how not to do it, and how to minimize the danger of an expensive employee lawsuit. No one said being an employer or a manager was easy. Fortunately, knowing how to fire employees will make your job much, much easier in the long run and save you heartache. Firing at Will teaches you what you need to know, without any legalese or boring recitations of statutes and case law. This book is filled with plain-English common sense, based on Jay Shepherd's 17 years of protecting employers in court. The style is conversational and often irreverent, but the lessons and tips are battle-tested. If you want to be a successful manager or employer—and sleep easier—you need to know how to fire at will. Gives employers and managers real-world advice on how to fire employees Teaches how to keep your company—and yourself—out of expensive employee lawsuits Guides you toward building a workplace where you'll need to fire fewer employees
Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together
Download or read book Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired written by Donna Ballman and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a deep breath and learn how to deal with a bad work situation: “Like having an employment attorney on call. . . . It’s exactly what employees need.” —Alison Green, author of Ask A Manager USA Best Book Award Winner Hate your job? Ready to quit? Facing a layoff before you even have a chance to quit? Is your boss is a flaming jerk? Think you might have a lawsuit? If any of these scenarios apply to you, you are facing a crucial career moment—and mistakes and misinformation will cost you dearly. In Stand Up for Yourself Without Getting Fired, celebrated attorney Donna Ballman provides winning answers to these and many more tough questions, such as: I think they’re getting ready to lay me off. What can I do? My boss is creating a hostile environment. Can I sue? What does it mean if I sign a paper saying I’m an independent contractor and not an employee? Am I exempt from overtime? Whether you’re a recent college grad or an almost-retiree, newly employed or laid off after twenty years; gay or straight; single or married with kids; janitor or CEO . . . Stand Up for Yourself Without Getting Fired will give you the specific and relevant advice you need to face any career-threatening situation . . . and come out ahead.
Download or read book FIRED written by Steven Mitchell Sack and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In FIRED! nationally known workplace attorney Steven Mitchell Sack has created a first-aid kit for surviving a firing. With over 41 years experience, Mr. Sack gives you the information and power you need to fight back, cut a deal, stand up for your rights, and land firmly on your feet. Complete with up-to-date sample forms, letters and legal documents, FIRED! tells you in clear language what to do, what to ask for and insist on, and how to protect your rights if you are let go or forced to resign, feel you have been unfairly or illegally fired, exploited in any way or quit. The book will not only save you money and increase your termination-benefits, it will also save you time, hastle, and your sanity so you can get on with your life. He tells you in clear language what to do, what to ask for and insist on, and how to protect your rights: How to negotiate and receive maximum severance pay, health insurance, and other benefits you deserve. What to do if you are discriminated against or harrassed. How to fight back if you are terminated for any reason. Steps to take if you resign or are fired. Actions to take if you see layoffs coming. Protecting your reputation and favorable job references .Hiring the right lawyer - or winning a case in court without one. Don't let your bosses catch you unprepared. With this book you have Steven Mitchell Sack, The Employee's Lawyer®, always on call to give you the professional edge. Know your job rights and fight back if you are FIRED!
Download or read book Fired Laid Off Out of a Job written by B. Keith Simerson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2003-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's economy, job loss will likely affect each of us at some point in our careers. Layoffs used to happen only when times were tough, but even a bustling economy is no protection when positions are eliminated, plants are closed, and jobs are shipped overseas in search of even higher profit margins. A toolkit for survival and coping with unemployment, this book explains how to minimize your chances of being laid off, how to negotiate the best outcome during the severance process, and how to re-enter the job market from a position of strength. This book is as important for employers, human resource managers, and outplacement specialists as it is for employees. Just as employees need to be aware of their rights and options, employers need to understand the ramification of their actions. This book provides an understanding of the hiring and firing process from both perspectives.
Download or read book Leadership Passages written by David L. Dotlich and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaders face numerous critical crossroads in their careers, moments that can provide extraordinary learning and growth opportunities or ensnare them and prevent further development. The good thing about these passages is that they’re predictable, and with proper preparation, leaders not only can survive them to become stronger but can use these experiences to enhance their leadership, compassion, and effectiveness. This book lays out thirteen specific “leadership passages” based on research, interviews, and coaching of senior executives in such well-known companies as Johnson & Johnson, Novarits, Intel, GE, and Bank of America. For each passage, the authors describe what to expect, how the passage constitutes a choice point, and what effective leaders do to navigate and grow from the challenge. Some of the passages include: moving into a leadership role for the first time, dealing with significant failure for which you are responsible, derailing/losing your job, being acquired/merging, losing faith in the system, understanding the importance of children, family and friends, and personal upheavals such as divorce, illness, and death. The authors provide a wealth of practical tools and techniques to improve your leadership, along with real-life examples from recognizable leaders and breakthrough ways in which companies can use the concept of leadership passages to grow talent.
Download or read book How To Survive Being Laid Off written by Carole Wylde and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being laid off means you have lost your job due to changes that the company has decided to make on its end. The difference between being laid off and being fired is that if you are fired, the company considers that your actions have caused the termination. If you are laid off, you didn't necessarily do anything wrong. This book gives you 14 strategies on how best to make a successful job transition. It is based upon the results of over 10,000 career development and job information workshop participant experiences, and how they made the best job transition from practically every conceivable stage in the job transition process.
Download or read book The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail written by Chetan Mahajan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a business executive is thrown into a jail in small town Jharkhand? He ends up with an education of a lifetime... When Chetan Mahajan is wrongfully sent to Bokaro jail, he encounters a world completely different from his corporate life in Delhi. From picking the best prison ward, befriending the people who can get him mobile phone access and upgraded food, and training for his upcoming marathon in the tiny prison yard, Chetan soon learns to work the prison system. In the process he makes unlikely friends, and discovers what India’s underbelly really looks like. A true story, The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail, is thought provoking, amusing and touching. It will show you the Indian prison as you have never seen it before.
Download or read book The Resume Coloring Book written by Lea McLeod and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Resume Coloring Book is a DIY formula for a successful, professional resume template. This template has gotten my clients interviews faster and more successfully than when they were writing a résumé on their own and not getting any results! And it's simple! Using a color-based, easy to follow method, you will create your DIY resume that looks like it was created by a professional, has a 60% better chance of being read, and greatly increases your chances of getting more interviews! The Resume Coloring Book will teach you how to identify and take credit for the skills you have, and, how to turn them into powerful credentials for your resume that will attract the employers you want to work for!
Download or read book One Question written by Ken Coleman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects answers about such topics as money, parenting, risks, failure, and life in general from celebrities and other high profile people.
Download or read book We Got Fired written by Harvey Mackay and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No fight left? No future? Does the handwriting on the wall say utter failure? Harvey Mackay, one of the world’s best-selling motivational and business authors tells you why it isn’t so. He reveals anecdotes and secrets from some of the best and brightest headliners in our world today. Their gripping accounts show that no one is immune to bad judgment or backstabbing. In colorful detail, these remarkable success stories reveal what the best of the best did to get back on top. Each story tells a unique tale and contains valuable lessons that are applicable to any reader who wants his or her career to flourish; indeed, this is the book that will inspire, instill hope . . . and give more than a glimpse into what makes these stalwarts strong. When Fortune magazine called Mackay “Mister Make-Things-Happen,” it was right on the money—getting this amazing group of people from various walks of life to talk openly about their abilities to bounce back shows him to be a master at getting people to divulge some of their defeats and their dreams. Hopeful, tough-minded, and filled with indispensable advice, We Got Fired! . . . And It’s the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us will show anyone how to turn a modern bummer into a major blessing. It’s a rarity: a sure thing in our shaky times.
Download or read book What To Do If You Are Laid Off written by Krystyna Toman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've been laid off, or if someone you care about has lost their job recently, I want you to know you're not alone and you are going to be okay. We're going to walk through some practical and effective ways for you to move forward, even in the face of fear. Just because you lose your job doesn't mean you'll lose everything else. Don't let fear blow this thing out of proportion. Panic leads to irrational thoughts, which lead to irrational behaviors. Use this time to pause and regain some perspective. In this book, the author guides you down the path to creating money out of thin air using what you already know and the power within you.
