severance
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This is where severance payments and opportunities for laid-off staff to shift into open roles are discussed, and arguments put forward for some to be reinstated.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
This can be perilous, since the six-month mark is when many job seekers lose severance or unemployment benefits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
In the lawsuit, Wynn-Williams alleges that after she was fired, she signed a severance agreement, which included a non-disparagement agreement and mandatory arbitration clauses, under duress.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
District officials have so far declined to say if Carvalho received a severance package.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Thus, while the bearer is no longer a member of our scholastic family, it is highly important that his severance with the college be executed as painlessly as possible.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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Discovery told investors that the cost of the downsizing would exceed $1 billion, to pay severances among other expenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
“I asked him repeatedly if the governor had approved or knew about any of his severances or payments, and Roy repeatedly refused to say that was the case,” Mayer said Thursday.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
Still, newspapers with strong guilds – the New York Times and Washington Post – have seen fewer layoffs and less brutal severances, on the whole, than those without.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2013
The cut ends were smashed so that they could not be crammed down over the tapering jets; but we could use our metal-saws for cleaner severances at the other ends.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Bates, Harry
We were, all of us I think, emotionalists, of one kind or another, and went up and down in our feelings, alliances, severances, trusts and distrusts, as a thermometer goes up and down.
From The Dark Forest by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
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