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Termination Reasons

As an employer, use the Termination Reasons page in Benefits Settings to manage the reasons available when terminating an employee in BerniePortal. BerniePortal includes three default reasons — Resignation, For Cause, and Other — and you can add reasons specific to your organization. Termination reasons also appear on employer reports.

Access Termination Reasons
  1. Select Benefits in the top navigation bar.
  2. Select Settings in the secondary navigation bar.
  3. Select Termination Reasons in the left-side menu.
Add a Termination Reason
  1. Enter a name in the Reason for Termination field.
  2. Select Add.
Termination reason names must be unique and can't exceed 255 characters; entering a duplicate returns an error asking you to enter another reason.

The default reasons — Resignation, For Cause, and Other — can't be edited or deleted, but you can update their COBRA / Mini-COBRA eligibility and reorder them the same as custom reasons.

Edit a Custom Termination Reason
  1. Select the custom termination reason you want to edit.
  2. Update the name in the Reason field.
  3. Select Save.
Delete a Custom Termination Reason
  1. Select the gear icon next to the custom termination reason you want to delete.
  2. Select Delete.
  3. Select OK to confirm.
Deleting a termination reason can't be undone.

Set COBRA / Mini-COBRA Eligibility
  1. Select or clear the checkbox under ELIGIBLE FOR COBRA / MINI COBRA? for a termination reason.
Reorder Termination Reasons
  1. Select the drag handle to the left of a termination reason and drag it to a new position in the list.