Manager who hires should also do the firing.

Courts have long assumed that if the same manager who hires an applicant is also the one who makes the firing decision, chances are that the manager didn't fire for discriminatory reasons. It simply doesn't make sense--especially when the applicant's protected status (race, sex, national origin) was obvious at the time the employee was hired.

This so-called "same actor" theory is a good reason to have managers make the termination decision on the employees they hire.

Recent case: Jillian was hired as a used car sales manager, but quickly butted heads with several employees. Vulgarity was a recurring problem, as she berated finance department employees as "old and slow as f**k."

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