In addition, The Times is offering a cash payout of 35percentt of the total severance amount to staff members who have been at the company for 20 years or more.
Left with 24 weeks of salary plus an undisclosed severance payout, still less than her $275,000-a-year total compensation, Firestone considered her options.
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.
But that need not – indeed should not – mean an almost total severance with the past.
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.
Mr. Whittingdale said the panel, the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, would also be keen to explore allegations that Mr. Hinton had personally insisted on a large severance payout for Mr. Goodman when he was released from prison.
They will make up about $45 million of the total severance costs, the company said in a securities filing.
We should get more of a severance payout (because conveniently for them, this was three weeks before end-of-the-year bonuses were due).
