severance

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The university has also opened a new voluntary severance scheme for academic staff.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The files also suggest Mandelson explored the possibility of a severance payment of more than £500,000 after he was sacked, although the BBC understands he takes issue with this claim.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

It accused Nexstar of pushing “to gut severance pay and insert onerous provisions into the union contract that limit workers’ ability to freely negotiate the terms of their own employment.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Unionized workers at Diageo’s plant in Amherstburg in December ratified a closure agreement that provided enhanced severance pay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

“If anything like this occurs again, all of your fathers will be dismissed without severance. Anybody know what severance is? Annie?”

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko