Contractor Rights: Severance Packages Explained
What determines whether you’re entitled to a severance package as a contractor? Just because your contract labels you an “independent contractor” does not mean you will be treated that way …
Severance Packages: Untangling the Complexities
What is the importance of a severance package? A person’s job represents something so fundamental to their day-to-day life and sense of purpose that if they are let go from …
Rogers Offering Voluntary Severance Packages to its Employees
Rogers offers some employees a voluntary severance package. Rogers Communications Inc. CEO, Tony Staffieri, underlines the company’s proactive measures to streamline operations and eliminate role overlaps after its $26 billion …
Telus offers Severance Packages to employees to cut workforce
What is Telus offering to its customer support staff across Canada? Telus offers severance packages! Telus, the Vancouver-based telecommunications company, is making waves by offering voluntary severance and retirement packages …
Disney’s Layoff Shockwaves: Navigating Layoffs and Severance Packages
Disney has announced plans for large layoffs in the coming months. The entertainment company plans to lay off a total of 7,000 employees, beginning in April and continuing throughout early …
Severance Packages in Mass Layoffs
Record inflation levels have many economists forecasting a looming recession in Canada, which will inevitably lead to many companies undergoing a series of restructurings and layoffs. Many companies in the …
The Pandemic’s Impact on Severance Packages
COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in mass layoffs and terminations all across the world. With every termination comes the topic of severance packages and especially that of the pandemic’s impact on …
Age and severance packages
Age has been noted as an important factor in determining severance. When potential job candidates seek employment, chances are the younger candidate will have better chances of obtaining employment versus …
Severance packages
Clash of the Talk Show Hosts Talk show host, Conan O’Brien, has reached a $45 million (U.S.) deal with NBC. After only 7 months on the Tonight show, as a …
Severance Pay
Severance PaySeverance pay is compensation you receive in place of proper notice of terminationGain a better understanding of the details of a severance package and your entitlements.What is a severance …