Sentence examples for given severance from inspiring English sources

Most of those fired yesterday were given severance proposals.

It isn't clear whether the associates, who were given severance packages, had accepted offers elsewhere inside Dechert.

He said 50 workers would be laid off but would be given severance packages and help in finding new jobs.

The company said employees in good standing would be given severance packages and priority in hiring at other Stern's stores.

The employees, mostly in junior positions, were dismissed on Wednesday and given severance packages, said the spokesman, Pascal Nadon.

About 135 workers will be offered other jobs in the company, with the rest given severance, said Julie Benson, a spokeswoman for Carnival's P&O Princess line.

Hodge, whose committee will hear from senior BBC figures including BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten and former director general Mark Thompson on Monday, said the report "demonstrates the chaotic and unstructured way in which the BBC was giving severance payments to senior managers".

The payments that Mr. Coulson received after he stepped down as editor also raise questions, according to people familiar with continuing investigations into phone hacking at Mr. Murdoch's companies, about the unusual practice of giving severance to senior staff over time rather than with a one-time payment.

In the first trial, which is due to open next week, Mr Botín is accused of misappropriating funds by giving severance packages totalling €164m $145mm) to two former executives of Banco Central Hispano Americano, which merged with Mr Botín's Banco Santander in 1999.

5. Be as generous as you can: Give severance even though you don't have to.

He was given a severance package of $36m.