Sentence examples for severance payouts from inspiring English sources

Let's begin with restrictions on severance payouts.

The Daily Telegraph puts the total cost of Whitehall severance payouts at £14m.

Last year, the company's shareholders approved by a wide margin a proposal intended to rein in executive severance payouts.

At Hewlett-Packard, its revolving door for chiefs has led to tens of millions in severance payouts even as thousands of employees have lost their jobs.

And many companies disputed that current severance payouts or enhanced retirement packages are really "golden parachutes," designed to offer soft landings in the event of takeovers.

Over the last year, regulators have been pressing corporate boards to draft policies denying huge severance payouts to senior executives if the firm teeters on collapse.

Now comes Mr. Apotheker's $13.2 million severance payout when the stock price was cut in half.

But Ms. Mayer fired him just 14 months later, resulting in a $58 million severance payout.

Mr. Minder's case was unexpectedly bolstered last month when Novartis, the pharmaceutical company, agreed to a $78 million severance payout for its departing chairman, Daniel Vasella.

Asked if she would return any of the money, after the BBC's former archive chief Roly Keating handed back his severance payout, Thomson said: "No, I'm not.

Mr. Fishman will be paid well if he fails, and even better if the company is sold — including a big severance payout.