Note: I should have published this before Thanksgiving, but I, quite frankly, forgot! Sorry!

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t’s officially no-fire season — that is, unless someone commits an egregious act— you don’t terminate employees from the week before Thanksgiving

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til January. That’s the rule from employment attorney Todd Stanton, and it’s a good one. (In the interest of full disclosure, I wrote the forward to Stanton’s book, The 95% Rule: A Field Guide to Not Losing Your

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ind or Making Your Lawyer Rich.) What’s the reason behind this rule? You may think that it’s just to be nice —nobody wants to lose their job around