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- Retrain For A New Career When Faced With A Company Lay Off Or Severance Package
- Going back to school may be necessary when faced with a job loss, particularly if working in an industry with little prospects of securing a new job. While many companies are laying-off workers, they also include educational benefits as part of severance packages. If your employer does not offer such...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Your Top Five Lay-off Questions Answered
- The Find: Getting laid off is stressful enough, you shouldn't have to worry about your rights under the law as well, so one blog has answers to the most common lay-off and severance questions. The Source: The New York Employment Lawyer blog. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- NORWAY: BRAATHENS EMPLOYEES PREFER SEVERANCE PACKAGE TO SAS JOB.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- SAS has taken over far fewer of the surplus Braathens employees than it had envisaged. The final figures show that 1,020 employees have chosen to accept the offer of a severance package worth between three and 15 months' salary. This is well over twi SAS has...
- Research articles 2002-09-10
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- Coping with Job Loss
- It used to be “the end of the world.” Decades ago, when someone lost his or her job, it was seen as a major setback. Today, while it’s still painful to be thrown out of work, you do have the consolation of knowing that millions of people have been chopped...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- Firing and the Law
- As workers become more knowledgeable about their rights, the number of wrongful-termination lawsuits is on the rise. Here's how you can avoid legal trouble when firing an employee. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Also known as: Title VII...
- Articles 2007-03-20
- Deciding Whether You're in the Right Job
- Regardless of what you do for a living, it's human nature to wonder at times if you are in the right job. Most people spend at least some of their working life questioning themselves and their careers—and speculating about whether other occupations or work situations might be more fulfilling and...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- Collins & Aikman pays $8.9 million to Evans.(former CEO Thomas Evans receives severance package)
- Byline: Robert Sherefkin An $8.9 million payout cushioned the fall of Thomas Evans from the top job at interior trim supplier Collins & Aikman Corp. in August. Evans' golden parachute was part of $23.8 million in severance costs for the former CEO...
- Research articles 2002-11-25
- Dell Ad Chief Jarvis Got $1.2 Mil. Severance Deal for Not Producing Ads
- UPDATE: It turns out Jarvis did achieve something on his watch: Dell settled for $3.35 million with 34 states over the deceptive advertising of its warranties and financing terms. Dell CMO Mark Jarvis, who left the company recently, took a $1.225 million severance package with him. The...
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Levi Severance Plan Remains a Leg Up on Others.(Originated from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution)
- ATLANTA--Nov. 5--When it comes to generosity, Levi Strauss & Co. is a hard act to follow. The San Francisco-based jeans makers' decision to close 11 factories and cut 6,400 jobs is softened by a precedent-setting severance package that includes up to...
- Research articles 1997-11-05
- Commentary: Gavel to Gavel: Job-hopping to success
- I marvel at how following a corporate implosion some CEOs and company presidents land on their feet with a windfall after a tenure that should generally be considered a miserable failure. The golden parachutes they've negotiated help with the soft landing, but their reputations appear equally unscathed. ...
- Research articles 2008-09-11
- More firms might offer job buyouts
- Delta Air Lines and the Big Three automakers were the first to announce major buyout programs this year. But expect more to come, especially from companies in the finance and housing industries, says John Challenger, of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago outplacement firm. If a buyout offer...
- Research articles 2008-05-11
- Travel Roundup: Allegiant Offers Los Angeles, Bombardier Business Jets Hurting, MGM Mirage's Building Woes and More
- Allegiant offers nonstop flights to Southern California from Sioux Falls, S.D. -- Allegiant Air will offer nonstop service to Southern California from Sioux Falls, S.D. starting May 20.  Allegiant Air isn't revealing which Southern California stop will be offered until Feb. 18, although some educated guesses would be Los Angeles International Airport, LA/Ontario International Airport in Ontario,...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- J. Crew: One-Upping the Gap in Quality, Style, and Agility
- With savvy PR and an agile product line, J. Crew has snagged a good chunk of the Gap's market — and even its CEO. Giant: The Gap Shadow Success: J. Crew The Gap market cap: $11.7 billion; revenues: $14.2 billion J. Crew market...
- Articles 2009-06-10
- Is Progressive Discipline Useless?
- The Find: Rather than going through the lengthy process of progressive discipline with an underachieving employee, better to simply fire those not meeting expectations straight away, argues ones HR pro. The Source: The very opinionated Punk Rock HR blog. The Takeaway: You have an...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- Working with a Professional Career Consultant
- While many people today are happy to manage their career progression themselves, on some occasions the most effective way of reaching your goals is to call in some professional help. Professional career consultants can help you determine what kind of career you should be in, set career goals for yourself,...
- Articles 2007-04-20
- IBM union: Layoffs could hit 16,000 by year's end
- There's always a little bit of stealth to IBM's workforce reductions. Layoffs are usually scattered across the country and in numbers small enough to avoid triggering state and federal mass layoff notification laws. And so it was this week, as IBM cut employees from its Global Business Services unit. IBM...
- News items 2009-08-09
- Real Networks Next Up in Layoff Sweepstakes
- Real Networks said today that it informed 130 employees, or 7.5 percent of its worldwide workforce, that their positions would be eliminated at the end of year. In a post on the company’s official blog, the company said the layoffs were part of a larger cost cutting plan that “is...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- Honey, I Shrunk My Sales Career!
- A reader writes: I was hired to drive the channel and marketing strategy for a technology company. The company was failing miserably with their channel model; the changes I implanted set them on the right path and the metrics prove it. I...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Pistons replace Brown with Saunders
- Patience paid off for Flip Saunders. After being fired in February by Minnesota, Saunders took some time to assess different job possibilities. When the Detroit Pistons finalized a $7 million severance package with Larry Brown earlier this week, Saunders knew he'd found the opportunity he'd been waiting for....
- Research articles 2005-07-22
- N Rock regulator receives Pounds 612,000 pay-off
- Clive Briault, the Financial Services Authority director of ret- ail supervision who lost his job after the collapse of Northern Rock, was handed a severance package worth more than 612,000, the regulator revealed yesterday. The revelation sparked fury among Rock shareholders, who have yet to receive a penny...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
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