If it is true that people who decline the offer to move to the partner will not have an opportunity to collect severance package, how is this legal?? Has anyone reached put to an attorney? The handbook is very clear…you are not eligible for severance package if you decline a position WITHIN the company. The positions being offered are NOT within the company!
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Take the job. Get legal representation and sue after. Esp if they pay lower, benefits lower etc. regardless, the line of you quitting for a forced termination is illegal. Look up cases. Corporate lawyers are going to learn what the average person call learn with AI faster than they can retype a sh-t policy. Judges love companies that sh-t on employees.
@a5 What a sc-mmy thing to do. I am embarrassed that I committed two decades of my life to this sl--eball company.
In the US: Section B, bullet #6 of the Severance Plan doc, the answer is a loud no.
"Your termination of employment with the Company is related to a corporate transaction, such as a sale of assets (including the sale of a division, Business Unit, or location), a sale of stock, spin-off, or transfer of a subsidiary, division, Business Unit, or location, or contracting out of a function to another company, and you are offered employment by another entity involved in the transaction."
You may have other rights in your state though.