According to Variety, the series will be set in small offices of 15 to 20 people, and the laid-off workers may "receive a small severance".
At best, it's a small severance or buyout, and a voucher for a discount on one of the hundreds of thousands of unsold cars that G.M. or Chrysler has sitting in inventory.
More than 20,000 laid-off workers at a defunct molybdenum mine in Liaoning Province, in the northeast, rioted in June over small severance packages; troops were called in to quell the violence.
I received a small severance and have a sizable 401 k), but that's about it.
Angry and discouraged after prolonged battles with a new management team over money and animal protocols, he left in August 2007 with a modest severance check and a small amount of stock.
Many demonstrations are small and peaceful, with fired workers denouncing low severance pay.
However, each job move during my short and turbulent career had created a small pot of severance pay and in the pre-bubble days of the London property market this was sufficient to put down a deposit each time and build up a small portfolio.
"We paid him a small amount of money as severance, but it was less than we'd have paid him if he stayed working until the Euros, significantly".
As a rough rule of thumb, larger companies can afford to be more generous with severance packages than can smaller ones.
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.
