Better Quit Or Wait To Be Fired

Figure 1:Quit Or Be fired (Source: (Bennett, 2021)

One of my friend called me last week and asked to let him know if there are any job opportunities available as he quit his job voluntarily. I was wondering why he left such an organization with high pay and a beneficial job at once. Later got to know that his employer had asked him to resign.

For an organization, employees may join and some employees may leave, which is called staff turnover staff turnover can happen voluntarily or involuntarily by the employee's will.

Table 1: Characteristics of Voluntary and involuntary resign

Voluntary resign	Involuntary resign
To find a new opportunity on another company	By termination
Due to medical and unavoidable personal reasons and to retire	Not renewing employment contract
Due to job unsatisfaction	Ask  by the employer to resign

 

Is there any possibility employer may ask you to resign voluntarily?

 

Most probably yes. The employer might ask his employees to resign voluntarily, considering the interest of both parties, if not in practical life, employees' job agreement will be terminated and simply be fired( (Sarokin, 2020), by the employer presenting various issues.

In “theoretically” voluntary resignation took place as above, employees may still able to walk keep head high as it will not damage to his or her reputation and no embarrassments from outside the organization and they may sometimes find next appointment with the help of recommendation or service letter from the previous employer who asks for resignation.

When an employer wants to restructure the organization, may be to lower the wages account, or simply want to throw some employees out of the office as they are not meeting with the organization's culture or have behavioral issues or being a non-performer or team player employer might ask for their resignation from certain employees.

Everything may be going well for the employer if the employee just packed his stuff and left the company; but what happens when the employee says “No.”

 

According to Kagan(2021), employers may fire their employees for

01. Misconduct,

02. Poor job performance,

03. violating company policy,

04. Theft, Damage to company property, or the use of company assets for personal use without      

        permission,    

05. Insubordination or not performing assigned certain job,

06. Taken too many sick leaves without proper justification, or consistent lateness,

07. Inappropriate social media activities according to certain employer agreement moral clauses

In the real scenario, employers may assign any of the above reasons and formally terminate employees’ job agreement according to prevailing law or make employees may feel that staying in a current job is undesirable assuming that the employee will eventually resign by themselves voluntarily or do encourage them to tender resignations.

But employers may beware of “Constructive discharge” which may occur lawsuit for wrongful termination of the employees and sometimes employees whose dismissal is imminent will get away with his misconducts or whatever the reasons behind to be terminated by voluntary tender their resignation and will leave the organization on their terms which allows them to frame their departure in a more positive light to a prospective employer (worknest, 2021).

In the Sri Lankan context, sometimes underprivileged, probably he or she be the sole breadwinner of the family, getting fired by setting up as voluntary resignation by the employers which causes badly damage to employee’s trust in private-sector job employment and incurring hatred on society and create no faith in the system of law and order.

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References

Bennett, M., 2021. T IS FOR TERMINATION: WHY WERE YOU FIRED JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION. [Online]
Available at: https://jsginc.com/tag/fired/
[Accessed 18 Decemeber 2021].

Kagan, J., 2021. Termination of Employment. [Online]
Available at: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/termination-employment.asp#:~:text=Employers%20may%20fire%20their%20employees,without%20justification%2C%20or%20consistent%20lateness.
[Accessed 18 December 2021].

Sarokin, D., 2020. Can an Employee Be Forced to Resign?. [Online]
Available at: https://smallbusiness.chron.com/can-employee-forced-resign-25464.html
[Accessed 18 December 2021].

worknest, 2021. What happens if an employee resigns during the disciplinary process?. [Online]
Available at: https://worknest.com/blog/resignation-disciplinary-process/
[Accessed 2021 December 2021].