Incarcerated Employee
M Warner
13 Posts
We have an employee who is facing a 2-3 month prison sentence. As his employer, what is my obligation to him? Am I required to keep his job open, as in a FMLA situation? If not, do I suspend him? Fire him? He is a good employee and his current legal problems are unrelated to our working relationship with him.
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If he does, and he then re-applies for emplyment with you upon his release, you can decide whether or not to hire him. At that point, dpending on cirfcumstances, you then may want to consider job-relatedness of the conviction, but you don't have to.
If resigns, do NOT offer any guarantee or even suggest that you'll rehire him -- unless you actually would.