{"id":3440,"date":"2020-06-26T03:21:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T03:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaudylaw.com\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2022-08-10T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T01:04:04","slug":"badmouthing-from-a-terminated-employee-be-very-careful-with-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/business-legal-tips\/badmouthing-from-a-terminated-employee-be-very-careful-with-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Badmouthing from a terminated employee&#8230; be very careful with this one."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWhat do I do if a recently terminated employee is badmouthing me, the employer, to my customers and remaining employees?\u201d<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; Great question!&nbsp;\ud83d\ude0aThis can happen to anyone&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This question is actually one I received while working with a client<strong>&nbsp;recently.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because there are generally no prohibitions on an employee saying negative things about you after you terminate them, (except for provable defamation of course) your options are&nbsp;very limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reality,<strong>&nbsp;ignoring this type of thing is almost always the best way<\/strong>&nbsp;to make it go away (despite how much we\u2019d like to engage! \ud83d\ude0a)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then our client was faced with the dilemma of trying to explain things to her remaining employees WITHOUT disclosing more than general information about the reasons for termination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(But it can get pretty stressful&#8230;)<\/strong><br>In the face of the former employee making statements to the current employees that were completely out of context,<strong>&nbsp;she decided to ask her&nbsp;team to TRUST her<\/strong>&nbsp;that she would never let someone go without a compelling reason&nbsp;and that because she respected the former employee, she didn\u2019t want to get into too many details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat do I do if a recently terminated employee is badmouthing me, the employer, to my customers and remaining employees?\u201d&nbsp; Great question!&nbsp;\ud83d\ude0aThis can happen to anyone&#8230; This question is actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[490],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaudylaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}