BAIS HAVAAD ON THE PARSHA Parshas Re'eh 5771: Severance

Halachic Considerations of Firing Employees By: Rav Dovid Grossman Over the past few years we were Matzliach in building up a successful business and we currently have over 20 employees. Unfortunately, due to the economic reality, our company is suffering to the point that we can no longer take a distribution adequate to live on the standard we were living on in the past. All our employees are working with an “at-will” agreement as our contract does not specify a term and allows us to fire them at any time.