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Reuters - The European Union must consolidate its representation in the International Monetary Fund to be able to pull its weight in shaping global economic policy, the EU's top economic official said on Monday.

Obama due in Prague for EU summit (AFP)

AFP - US President Barack Obama was due in Prague on Saturday a day ahead of a summit with EU leaders hosted by outgoing Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, a virulent critic of US economic recovery plans.

ADDITIONAL INFO Under the Federal Employee Adjustment and Retraining Letter Act, usually known as WARN, you should provide advance notice of mass lay offs and plant closings to workers within 60 days of the termination. The Right Way To Layoff a worker. The sacked employee will be eligible for unemployment benefits when you layoff him or lay him off for the following reasons.

Once you clearly set the rules and communicate them to workers, you can use worker write ups to document behavior. This is an incident of misconduct or poor performance similar to other recent events. The layoff should typically occur within a week of the triggering incident. Whether the infraction is on-the-job drinking or frequent misbehavior, the firm's well-being is too important to let the jobholder slip through the crack. The worker must sign written warnings and this serves as documented substantiation that he or she was aware of the problems. Inform the employee you're giving this "short-cycle" productivity review to give him a chance to upgrade and understand your new expectations. o Lastly, even if you have found no wrongdoing, you still should be ready for the worker to resign. So, if you do need to sack one of these workers you should avoid being on the losing side of an unfair separation case. Grounds for dismissing an employee are as varied as their faces. This will assist you, and any other supervisor you hire, protect both your rights as an employer and your employee's rights as a worker. o Have you thoroughly recorded the business reason for the jobholder's job elimination and is it unlikely you'll refill this position within the next year? o When you think the employee will probably get violent, do you have a security person waiting near the meeting room?