Have any former employees on here tried negotiating their severance benefits or had a lawyer write a counteroffer letter? If so,how did a pan out?
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If you live in an employee at will state (USA) then you really have no recourse. If you have a grievance and good evidence you might be able to negotiate something.
fellow (now ex) coworkers went to lawyers. All shot down by Nielsen, and no legal recourse to move forward. In most situations this is all normal and no severance is guaranteed by law.
I know some of you have never been through a layoff before, so it feels terrible (and it is), but this is all pretty standard and legal. Unfortunately.
When I got laid off years ago, it was early in the year (February if I recall). I was due my Q4 sales commission since I was on the client facing side and worked on contracts. They initially were going to deny me the commission as part of my severance but I raised holy heck and made some threats about going to the press on how Nielsen operates with certain clients...they came around. Lol.
There is that person who declined the severance pay, then sued Nielsen as self-represented (no lawyer) and then received over $50,000 offer from Nielsen. He declined that and is still suing Nielsen.
I tried and they will not negotiate with a normal situation - the other comment her does not sound usual.
There was a Nielsen manager who was fired and offered no severance. He hired a lawyer and the lawyer wrote a demand letter. Nielsen settled for either 60K or 80K. No lawsuit was filed.