You are ending an employee's contract
Ending an employment contract
Tell the routes apart and what each one requires — dismissal, mutually agreed termination, end of fixed-term contract —, work out the notice period and the statutory allowance, check the floor for a mutually agreed termination, estimate the employee's unemployment benefit. 9 steps, through to the two documents you must hand over.
Understand: the routes to termination and what each requires
Compute: notice, statutory allowance, agreed-termination floor, retirement departure allowance, precarity bonus, benefit
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- Step 7 of 9
Draw up: the termination agreement, the employer's certificate
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The other paths
A different procedure, the same principle: the three pillars in order.
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