Give employee time to weigh severance offer

01/09/2013

If you want to offer a severance package to an employee in exchange for giving up the right to contest a discharge, give him plenty of time to consider the offer. If you don’t, the signed deal may not be final. Recent case: Chirag, a Columbia University lab technician, held a...

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