Sentences with phrase «accepted severance»

He then accepted a severance payment of three years» salary without disclosing any of his fraudulent activities.

Another 17 employees are moving to other state agencies, and 59 more have accepted severance packages, said state education officials who announced the layoffs this month.

Moreover, before accepting any severance offer, you should be mindful of the period of time during which LTD benefits will be continued.

If you are an Ontario worker and you have recently been let go from your job - whether for cause or not for cause - it may be prudent to seek a professional legal opinion before agreeing to accept the severance package offered to you.

If you accept a severance agreement, you will likely be asked to sign an agreement that would prevent you from suing your employer.

Our attorneys can also help you determine if you should not accept the severance because you may be able to obtain a larger monetary award through an employment lawsuit.

A. Before you accept a severance package, it is important to fully understand the details of the offer.

Generally speaking, once you accept a severance offer (and a sign a release agreement to this effect), you will be held to its terms.

A dismissed employee could sign a release and accept a severance arrangement that doesn't include the accrual of pension benefits through the period of common law notice (as long as all statutory obligations are met).

Managed relocation of cash reconciling unit resulting in 50 % fewer employees accepting severance packages.

Not exact matches

Before the severance package was accepted, the employer discovered additional misconduct on the employee's work computer relating to conflicts of interest as well as a breach of the company's pornography policy.

In today's workplace law column in the Metro News, I review the consequences when an employer erroneously offers an over-valued severance package to a dismissed employee, who then accepts the great deal.

However, prior to the offer of severance being accepted, the employer, based on information that it subsequently obtained about the employee's conduct during his employment, withdrew its offer of severance.

Unless you are a transient worker, or have signed a pre-negotiated severance amount in your employment contract, severance is negotiable, and you should almost never accept the first offer.

But even from an entirely mercenary perspective, many employees, upset at working away their severance pay, will eventuallly approach the employer and offer to accept a discounted severance in return for being allowed to leave.

Rather than offer straight severance pay, Foley gave Dineen the option of accepting 25 percent of his salary to spend a year working for legal aid, which Dineen accepted.

Timing — Never give a dismissed employee less than a few days to consider a severance offer and do not accept any release or agreement signed on the spot.

Employers often assert cause to intimidate employees into accepting a lower severance or dropping their claim entirely.

Although Tong had no prior history of excessive breaks, much less time fraud, Galucci accepted Macdonald's report and dismissed Tong for just cause, without severance.

Do not be one of those employees who blindly accepts their employers» first offer of a severance package.

Most employers count on the fact that the vast majority of dismissed employees will accept the first severance package offered.

The courts may award the former employee an increased severance package in the form of notice pay (pay equivalent to the amount of time needed for the employee to find a comparable job) if it is found the employee accepted the job offer due to being induced.

In the post Do I Have to Accept Salary Continuance as Part of my Severance Package?

In addition, for any employee not retained or declining the continued employment, including any employee who accepted the continued employment but later refused to stay with the company before the delivery day of the transaction, the prior employer shall terminate the employment contract with such employee after the transaction, and such employee shall be entitled to a prior notice of termination of employment or paid a wage payable during that prior notice in accordance with Article 16 of the Labour Standards Act, and be duly paid the pension or awarded severance pay pursuant to the laws.

The impact of Farwell is to eliminate what had been a fairly effective negotiating tool for employers — claiming that a former employee should accept a lower severance package because the employee never returned to the workplace in circumstances when the employer had no interesting in having the employee return to work.

The appellant's arguments concerning severance of the phrase «or accept business» have no merit: Shafron v. KRG Insurance Brokers (Western) Inc., 2009 SCC 6 (CanLII), [2009] 1 S.C.R. 157 at para. 36.

This could have been avoided had the employer simply acknowledged that Ciszkowski did not accept the new terms, terminated him and paid out a severance package.

While the case is perhaps most notable for a sustained blast by Sedley LJ against the injustice he sees as having been done to her by the previous health secretary who stepped in to stop the trust making the severance payment it had agreed, the principal judgment on the substance of the case was by Laws LJ who accepted that payments by public authorities to their employees can be challenged under administrative law principles, but obviously found it in general invidious if an authority is using such principles to try to avoid a contractual agreement made by itself.

Can you tell them that you refuse to accept the changes and demand that they pay you severance?