QUESTION
No severance pay after 18 years with the company?!
Asked on Nov 03rd, 2014 on Employment Contracts - Ohio
More details to this question:
I've been w/ my hospital for 18 years. They're outsourcing my position to another company. I have the opportunity to move to the other company, which is the reason my hospital says I won't get severance pay. I know they have given severance pay to other former employees, so is it allowable for them to pick/choose who they give it to? Regardless if I choose to go with the other company, I feel I deserve something for my 18 years. Also, with the new company I will be making less than half what I currently make!
1 ANSWER
There is no law requiring an employer to give you severance. Unless there is a policy of providing severance, the employer does not have to give it. In addition, unless there is an unlawful reason for not offering you severance, then there is no real legal claim.
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Answered on Nov 03rd, 2014 at 10:37 AM
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