An attorney can help ensure that if the employee does sign an agreement, it provides more than any severancepayment the worker was already entitled to.
He is threatening to take the club to Uefa arbitration under a contractual clause which he claims allows him to leave in return for a severancepayment.
He said the council would be able to operate very successfully without a managing director and that the severancepayment had been approved by the Audit Commission.
The SeverancePayment : If an employee is already entitled to receive a severancepayment, whether pursuant to an employment contract or company policy, there is no need to sign a severance agreement to get that money.