severance

They signed confidentiality agreements in return for severance pay, and fear that speaking publicly could hurt their chances of finding work in an industry which has a small network.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Unified letter shows that the school board was laying the legal groundwork to dismiss Carvalho for cause, which would have deprived him of contractual severance payments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

At minimum, Baillie argues, he should have received $825,000 to $1.1 million in severance pay, based on company precedent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The company said the stark increase in its expenses for the quarter was tied to legal and severance costs, and operating income would have been up 9% without those charges.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 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

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

Isoult began to cry at this, which cut her deeper than all the severances she had known.

From The Forest Lovers by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Between these phases again there are no sharp severances; each phase resolves and melts imperceptibly into that which follows.

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson