Question

riday afternoon, several employees reported to their supervisor that an employee told them that he was going to bring in a gun with a silencer and shoot someone. Immediate action was required. Therefore, the Incident Response Team was not activated. An employee who had worked for the company for over 25 years became upset with rumors being spread by coworkers. The employee told a group of coworkers that he was going to bring in a gun with a silencer and shoot someone. Several coworkers provided statements to that effect. When interviewed by the Corporate Director of Security, the witnesses denied making any such statements. The employee was interviewed and freely admitted to making the statements; however the employee indicated that he did not mean the threats seriously. The employee just wanted the other employees to stop spreading rumors. Intimidation or the threat of violence violates various laws. In this case, the employee was not charged criminally; however, the matter was handled administratively. 1. It is important that businesses have a clear policy regarding these types of threats and intimidation. 2. Businesses must consider each case on the material facts and weigh all aggravating and mitigating factors. When do you terminate an employee with over 25 years of service? 3. What can businesses do to help the employee?

Answer 1

The following include but are not limited to specific examples of behavior that could represent threats or acts of violence within this policy:

• Physical or violent threats or acts of aggression related to another person;
• Physical harm threats or acts aimed at an individual or his / her family, friends, partners or property;
• Intentional damage or threat of destruction of the land or properties of Skidmore College;
• Phone calls or emails harassing or threatening;
• Monitoring;
• Stalking;
• Stalking Veiled threats of physical harm or similar bullying;
• A colleague, supervisor or seller's abusive or intimidating conduct;
• Any conduct resulting in the conviction of any provision of the criminal code regarding violence or threats of violence adversely affecting the legitimate interests of Skidmore's college.

If you believe that you are a victim or witness, please report it immediately to your Supervisor or Director, or if your Supervisor or Director is unavailable, or your Supervisor or Director cannot report it to your Supervisor or Director of Human Resources in comfort.

• Determine whether any person concerned should be taken down from the campus in order to ensure the health and welfare of employees, students and/or third parties; ̈
• Conduct an immediate and full investigation of this incident;
• Work together to determine appropriate action, including termination, removal and/or legal action.

when to fire an employee who served for 25 years?

Only if there is a genuine threat to some other coworkers and that person is mentally unstable to understand the situation, in that case, he/she might be terminated from his/her service, or

If he/she has caused substantial harm to some other coworker or involved in any such activity that might have caused harm to a coworker, he/she might be terminated from service.

What can businesses do to help the employee?

Business always doesn't need to complain to local authorities about the misconduct. They might do the following steps to help the employee:

• Not to assume bad intentions: Not every word that a person says does translate his doings for sure. He/she might be joking as well. So, talking to the employee is very essential to identify his/her intentions.
• Being alert: While not assuming that he/she is intending to harm coworkers, it is necessary to keep an eye on that employee. There is no replacement for caution.
• Keep noting down: Monitoring activities and keeping note of their activities might give an idea of what they are up to. This give an idea of their intentions.
• Providing Moral Support: It might be that he/she is forced to take such steps due to constant triggering by some incident. So, counseling them and offering moral help might melt them down and tenure longer service with the firm.
• Enquire of work conditions: If a person is constantly demotivated and poked by someone, he/she might be irritated and will be forced to take such steps. So, ensuring porter healthy workplace environment might help the employee as well.