Articles, tagged with "severance packages", page 1
The advantages of employee retention
A recent conference, held in Bahrain, stressed the need to retain valuable employees:
‘Companies in the Gulf lose millions of dollars annually due to volatile staff turnover, a Pan Gulf conference has revealed. The Edexcel-organised Effective Behaviours ...
Balancing Executive Compensation With Business Performance
As government regulators apply more scrutiny to executive compensation, corporate boards are spending more time reconciling increasing calls for pay-for-performance reforms with their need to motivate and retain chief executives and other senior managemen...
Employment Lawyers - Necessary in Today's Economy
In today's economy, there are a lot of sensitive topics that have to do with employment. This applies to people on both sides. In other words, this applies to the employers and the employees alike. There are many people being laid off or made redundant du...
Severance Pay Entitlement
If you were promised a certain amount of severance by your former employer and you have not seen that money or have only seen a portion of it, your employer has violated a contract and you can sue for that money and breech of contract.
While severance ...
The Importance of Having an Emergency Fund
No one has to tell you that emergencies come. You've probably experienced a few of them yourself. What you might not have known is that you should always have some money set aside to cover the expense of an emergency. This type of savings accounts is call...
Network Marketing in a Recession - Why Recessions Are Good For Network Marketers
The network marketing industry has gotten a tremendous amount of attention during the recession for it's ability to be "recession-proof". While this is true in some respects, we need to closely examine anything that purports to be "recession proof" simply...
Law Firms - Providing Support Services across the World
The Intercontinental Group of Accountants and Lawyers (IGAL) serves as a confluence of ideas and promotes business opportunities among its members who provide the necessary support services to their clients.
An International Network of Law Firms is a b...
Is the Dubai Property Market on the Brink of Something Better?
A review of recent trends in the property sector seems to indicate that Dubai is certainly on the crossroads of development. Yet the present lull in the building and construction sector is worrying many analysts, to say the least. In the opinion of the ...
How Much Should an Employee Get as Severance Package
Generally, a severance package is made up of pay and benefits given by an employer to a dismissed employee. But contrary to some belief, a severance package is not given as an entitlement prescribed by law, rather it is an employer's prerogative - which m...
Understanding Employment Severance Packages
There are instances when workers leave the companies that employ them for various reasons. These employees might benefit from Employment Severance Packages which can help tide their expenses over until they find a new job.
Existence of Employment Se...
Severance Pay for Departing Workers
There is no federal law that obligates employers to give severance pay to their workers who will be laid off or terminated, with the exception of some states which require companies to provide severance pay for laid off employees.
While giving severanc...
Misconceptions about Employment Severance Package
There are so many terms to use: laid off, terminated, fired, downsized or let go. It does not matter, which term your employer may use, the bottom line is that you just lost your job.
Thousands of things are simultaneously running through your head. Y...
Will The Entrepreneur Save The World?
As economies of the World continue to struggle and governments scurry to apply fixes from their bag of tricks it is becoming apparent to many either inside or outside political spheres that government solutions are going to solve the problems but instead ...
Laid-Off! What’s next?
As Chicken Littles had warned, the stock market collapsed and many are rendered job less. Not only the realtors and home builders are facing this problem but workers across the board the feeling the pinch.
‘Laid off' severely impacts on your financ...
Blues Plans Are Criticized on Executive Compensation; Some Adjust Pay Based on Economy : Chris Meeha
While Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans' executive compensation may seem insignificant compared to corporate bonuses and golden parachutes at many large for-profit companies, the plans are not immune to criticism for their compensation and severance packag...
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