If you’re suddenly unemployed, the first thing you may think about is filing for unemployment benefits. The last thing you think about is having your benefits denied because you got a severance payment when you left your job. Does severance pay affect unemployment, and if so, can you get your benefits restored? Jackson Spencer Law [...]
If you are terminated and your employer hands you a severance agreement, you’ll want to know your rights before you sign anything. More often than not, severance agreements are drafted by an employer’s lawyer with provisions to protect the employer and not you, the employee. In fact, many of these agreements ask you to give [...]
So you think you may have been discriminated against at work. When is the right [...]