Sentence examples for severance by from inspiring English sources
Most of the time, that campaign was long enough ago that they aren't still being paid severance by it, as Lewandowski is.
The former chairwoman of the Warnaco Group, Linda J. Wachner, has settled a dispute over her severance by agreeing to a smaller package, the company said yesterday in a quarterly regulatory filing.
William Gaskill, who championed Bond's early work at the Royal Court, and who directed all his major plays up to The Sea in 1973, once explained his eventual severance by writing: "Bond seems determined to follow in the footsteps of Brecht and impose a dialectical theory on his imagination".
Several years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission turned a brighter spotlight on severance deals by requiring companies to disclose the values of the contracts in regulatory filings.
An article on Tuesday about the anger expressed by lawmakers in Britain over the size of severance payments by the BBC to departing executives between 2009 and 2012 referred incorrectly to the number of Britons who pay a license fee to watch television.
In the two periods covered by KPMG and National Audit Office [investigations] the BBC overspent on severance payments by £3.8m.
Employers circumvent the severance obligation by hiring workers on short-term contracts or from labor agencies.
In the film "American Beauty", the protagonist wins a hefty severance package by threatening to accuse his boss (wrongly) of making a homosexual approach.
Albert J. Dunlap, the notorious former chief executive of the Sunbeam Corporation, is one of the few executives to be denied a severance payment by his board of directors.
Under intense questioning from several shareholders, Mr. Wolf said that neither he nor two other top executives would exercise their rights, under terms of the abandoned merger with United, to collect $45 million in severance pay by retiring in November.
The once-widespread practice of paying a boss's taxes on his post-takeover payout, a nice little earner known as the "excise tax gross-up", has also ended, costing some chief executives millions of dollars, says Mr Kay.Bosses can no longer trigger big severance payouts by "self-termination"—quitting or retiring adds Doug Friske of Towers Watson, another pay consultant.
