Both received generous severance packages and had offers from other firms waiting for them.
As a result, in order to attract good candidates, they offer significant severance packages.
Hospitals, eager to get them out (for whatever reason), had to negotiate costly severance packages.
The people who wrecked the American banking system walked away with multimillion-dollar severance packages.
Designing severance packages more carefully is a worthy idea, but simply eradicating them could do real damage.
In its report, the Public Accounts Committee said that was out of line with severance packages in the public sector.
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So successful has Don been at manipulating employers that one year he wangled two different six-month severance packages.
Mr Jacobs said "fair and equitable severance packages" had been agreed for employees which were "well above" statutory requirements.
Severance packages for under-performing CEOs reflect a broader trend in the U.S. economy.
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Shareholders at Hewlett-Packard's annual meeting kicked up a stink about a plan for generous severance packages for senior executives.
As the most recent data show, the new rules have done little to clamp down on excessive CEO severance packages.
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Companies can offer less generous severance packages because they know that the state will pick up part of the tab.
Mr Jacobs said if the closure went ahead it would offer "fair and equitable severance packages over and above the statutory requirements".
To add insult to injury, there are a number of CEOs who have been fired recently and have gotten extremely large severance packages.
Big severance packages also make it much harder for start-ups to recruit the professional managers that can take them into the big league.
Bassoul also applied a salve, offering severance packages he claims exceeded both the law and Middleby's policy of one week of pay for every year of service.
Military members of the rank of colonel and above will not be entitled to severance packages and cannot work for the new Iraqi government, once it is established.
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The cost of paying out large severance packages (six months of severance pay is typical even for very recent hires) can be a huge drain for a small company.
Shih took pains to cushion the blow of layoffs, providing generous severance packages and writing letters of recommendation and personal messages to the families of those who lost their jobs.
And so people who lost their job early this year are now having their severance packages go away and they're starting to have to look for work in a major way.
The penalty is part of a new section of the tax code clamping down on salary and bonus deferrals, executive retirement and benefit plans, severance packages, discounted stock options and even stock appreciation rights.
Most executives command at least seven-figure severance packages.
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Employees were told that they could ask questions later and severance packages would be generous, with Zynga offering to pay for insurance and salary for several months and include some acceleration of stock vesting, this employee said.
The company said the group will offer the opportunity to apply for vacant positions at other sites to the employees affected and also work with employees and their representatives to agree on appropriate loyalty and severance packages.
It's going to - it takes a while for job losses to sort of - on Wall Street to get felt by everyone else because Wall Streeters, when they lose their job, tend to get nice severance packages.
People, especially youth (for whom unemployment rates are above 51%), find it difficult to understand there is no money for healthcare or universities, but enough to go around when it comes to rescue banks or pay severance packages to bankers who have ruined their companies.
Severance and benefits packages were put together and final paychecks were printed out for the others.
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