Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Friday that an economic stimulus program that will put $168 billion into consumers' hands this year and next could help create hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

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AP - Wall Street sank in volatile trading Thursday after the government confirmed that the last quarter of 2007 did indeed suffer a sharp economic slowdown. For the second straight session, the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 100 points.

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Some of these terms should include the use of drugs or alcohol on-the-job, misbehavior of a supervisor or company owner, failure show up to work or physical, verbal or mental abuse of another employee. This meant you could separate an insubordinate individual easily. The warning can act as a precursor to harsher reformatory action. Only layoff a probationary employee for a obviously documented, legitimate and fair reason. You'll eventually reach a place of compromise both of you'll agree on, and neither of you will be happy. She'll say the "real" reason was her protected status and not owing to your stated legitimate reasons. There are several forms of employee misconduct and we will just discuss a few of the major ones. You have invested time, money and effort training your personnel. This means giving workers an opportunity to redeem themselves after you have taken reformatory action against them. You must encourage the jobholder to seek their own legal counsel if they're unsure about the waiver.

Whatever the case, this worker can lower company esprit de corps and hurt relations with customers and suppliers. Now and then it becomes necessary to fire workers for economic reasons. So it's best to treat her as a medium-risk termination and give her some extra money in return for a release of claims. To be clear, the firm is happy with you or your work performance. The good news for you, or your subordinate, is the fired employee will likely not return. o The employee has a great reputation outside the company and letting her go could hurt the small business's standing in the industry.