severance
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Under a collective bargaining agreement, the Assn. of Western Pulp and Paper Workers obtained benefits for those impacted, including extended medical coverage and severance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
That program, Nike said, includes around $1 billion of pre-tax charges, “primarily consisting of employee-related costs,” as well as roughly $300 million in severance costs recognized in the last fiscal year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Those who are unable to transfer will receive severance support, Starbucks said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Two voluntary severance schemes have now run at the institution, with previous rounds focused on professional services staff who work alongside academics.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Discharged with or without honor, fired with or without severance, dispossessed with or without notice, they hung around for a while and then could not imagine themselves anywhere else.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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
It was for Davenport to learn what severances would produce, not the disagreeable effect of the operation known to criminals, but a result altogether pleasing.
From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens
His retirement occasioned genuine grief to the King; and of all the severances which he had to undergo, this was probably that which affected Bismarck most.
From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam
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