Electricity workers, angry at lower severance payments, have suspended maintenance, so power cuts may follow.
The rest are typically unemployed men looking for juicy profits from their severance payments.
I'd legislatively ban employment contracts that call for huge severance payments without regard to performance.
The DoH said there had been a significant fall in the number of approved severance payments.
As executives at a growing list of companies slash staffs, some are becoming tightfisted about severance payments.
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Generous and poorly designed severance payments cause conflict, Mr Gonzaga says, and encourage workers to move frequently.
The second round, adopted earlier this year, added pay limits for some firms, and banned bonus and severance payments.
But it has now confirmed that since 2005 it has vetted all proposed special severance payments to NHS staff.
The number of approved special severance payments in NHS Trusts is coming down.
The scandal broke when a political quarrel in the national postal service brought its severance payments out into the open.
The Trust had suggested a wider study of severance payments at the BBC, which the NAO was to undertake, she added.
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Contracts containing unethically high severance payments are partly the result of a pervasive private-sector ethos (even where it is not appropriate).
The Companies Act could be amended so as to oblige firms to make severance payments proportionate to the departing director's performance.
Employers have been grappling with the issue of whether FICA tax is due on severance payments to laid-off employees for a long time.
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The Department of Health plays a key role in vetting severance payments to NHS staff, including money offered to whistle-blowers, it has emerged.
When workers are laid off, they often receive lump-sum severance payments.
In instances where there is a without cause termination provision in exchange for severance payments, the terms of the severance payments should be specifically stated.
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"Mr. Lew's eagerness and skill in obtaining bonuses, severance payments, housing allowances and other perks raises concerns about whether he appreciates who pays the bills, " Grassley said.
You put in a call to the HR Department, and they tell you that they were required to take out FICA taxes, because the severance payments are wages.
While welcoming the announcement, he told the BBC that other severance payments to staff made through a different process, known as judicial mediation, may not be covered by the new rules.
The protestors are demanding that millions of dollars in unpaid social benefits, such as pensions and severance payments, be paid immediately to them by Coca-Cola FEMSA, a Mexican-based subsidiary of Coke.
Senior professionals in private industry were less surprised by the size of the salaries, but were nonetheless indignant about the severance payments which, they said, contravened traditional practice in the public sector.
The initial restrictions, included in bailout legislation in October, limited severance payments for top executives at banks taking government money and required boards to ensure they weren't rewarding executives for taking excessive risk.
Also on the table were limits to the fat severance payments available to bureaucrats, and measures to speed the privatisation of telecoms, electricity, fisheries and the post office, and to contract-out the management of ports.
Now that the Quality Stores decision reopens the possibility that the IRS may not be allowed to collect FICA tax on severance payments after all, employers who made substantial severance payments have a window to act.
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The DoH revealed that its officials had approved more than 400 severance payments in the last five years, but it said it did not know how much of the money may have been tied to so-called gagging clauses - the BBC Radio 4 Today programme's Andrew Hosken reported.
If the terms of the employment contract condition severance payments on compliance with the non-disparagement clause or unequivocally state that a breach of the non-disparagement clause will result in a forfeiture of severance or other benefits- the clause is optimized if the payments or benefits paid out to the executive director are paid out over a period of time.
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The committee's charter says its responsibility include making recommendations to the full board regarding AIG's compensation programs and reviewing and approving any hiring, severance or termination payments.
Elements like tax gross-ups, single triggers on change-in-control payments, evergreen provisions in which contracts automatically renew, and high severance multiples have been black-listed.
Earlier this month Mr Maude announced plans to bring forward a bill to limit the cost of future payments by capping all compulsory redundancy pay-offs at 12 months' pay and limiting amounts for voluntary severance to 15 months' salary.
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