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Dec02

Employee quitting the job

Termination
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If an employee quits, do I have to get that in writing? Or is a phone call, text message, voice mail message, tweet or email enough?

Yes, this is a best practice in HR and almost universally applied. Every employer needs for the employee to resign in writing, even if it is a hand-written note. For the employer, this proves the employee quit, rather than was fired — most importantly, for the unemployment office. For the employee, if he or she does not give a letter of resignation, but quits showing up at work, the employer has no choice but to fire the employee for excessive absenteeism. Many employees would not want the next interviewer to know that they were fired.

An email would be acceptable, the other forms of communication are not proof that the employee quit.

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