Sentence examples for to make severance from inspiring English sources

For a simple reason, however, the votes are unlikely to make severance payments less common or contract language less narrow.

The company, which is based in Clinton, Miss., sought a bankruptcy court's approval yesterday to make severance payments to employees laid off before its filing.

He is now engaged in arbitration with the company, which refused to make severance payments to him; he has retained PricewaterhouseCoopers as an accountant to help him in that arbitration.

And the A.F.L.-C.I.O., along with Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, filed a motion today asking the judge overseeing Enron's bankruptcy proceedings to order Enron to make severance and other payments to former Enron employees.

Worker representatives insist that shutting down Bochum would cost more than it would save, because of the need to clean up the site, with its legacy as a former coal mine, to make severance payments to employees and to move production to another factory.

Gannett, a largely nonunion company, is under no obligation to make severance or any other payments to most of the people it lays off, and it is not alone in looking for ways to spend less on employees as it weathers the downturn; many newspaper companies, including The New York Times Company, have cut wages and benefits.

A government spokesman said: "All departments must weigh the importance of accountability and transparency, as well as value for money for the taxpayer, against any potential benefits when choosing to make a severance payment".

The post-Enron Congress has shunned even modest protections like rules to require companies to make promised severance payments or to let workers elect representatives to the board of their 401(k) plans.

But state Sen. Scott Wagner (R) is trying to make the severance tax a central fight in his challenge to Wolf's re-election.

But it has another pernicious dodge.One of the few liberal reforms passed by Mr Berlusconi's government gave employees a chance to invest in pension funds the contributions that they have to make to severance-pay funds, which were until now held by their employers.

In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled that Boeing was within its rights to make lump sum severance payments to several employees when they quit Boeing to take senior military posts.