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Lawsuits and Firing Mentally Disabled Employees

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So, here’s the deal, an employer can terminate any employee for any reason so long as it’s not an illegal reason. Now the difficulty is when you ultimately get to court to tell your story as an employer about why the employment relationship ended you have to be able to explain that there was a legitimate reason that had absolutely nothing to do with the person’s race, religion, disability, anything like that. Typically, that comes from what you write down, what you send in e-mail, what is in performance reviews. So, of course you can terminate someone, but it should be for performance-based reasons and it should be well-documented.

Minneapolis and St. Cloud employment law attorney Sheila Engelmeier discusses the difficulties of proving that firing an employee was for a legal reason.

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