Corporate Layoffs: What Laid Off Employees Need to Know
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Permanent layoffs, where the employer has no intention of recalling those employees to work, while attempting to facilitate its corporate and financial interests (i.e., cost-savings, customer demand, corporate acquisitions, closures), are nevertheless extremely stressful and challenging for the impacted employees. While the corporate executives and management might assert that its not personal, and merely about meeting corporate financial targets, they are exceedingly personal for the impacted employees and have serious financial repurcussions for those employees. Yet, as an impacted employee, you need to take care of your personal financial interest when you are laid off, irrespective the stated financial challenges and necessities of your former corporate employer, especially where your boss took the unilateral action to permanently lay you off.
These corporate executives would like you to believe that their layoff package is the best possible outcome for a terminated employee, developed with leading lawyers, to provide yourself with more than the company is legally obligated to provide. This position is even more pronounced from larger companies, including publicly-traded companies and foreign companies operating in Alberta, as well as corporate employers of unionized employees who have negotiated the layoffs with the unions. Yet, with any permanent layoff, the impacted employees need to attain their own personal legal counsel, especially where they might attain a free confidential assessment as to the proposed layoff package and how it fails to provide adequate legal satisfaction.
When we contend that most corporate layoff packages are seriously inadequate, this is supported by a massive amount of information and materials that have been made available and disclosed by these corporate employers. And yet, the legal community would appear to have become increasingly complacent, such that employees are receiving ever-more inadequate layoff packages. You, however, are entitled to receive all that you are legally entitled and you should not settle for anything less.
Our approach, however, is not for everyone. When we take on layoffs and dismissals by corporate employers, we pursue it very aggressively, attacking their fundamental employment practices. As such, for those individuals who simply want to accept the proposed layoff package and move on, even if it means leaving behind a considerable amount of money, we are probably not the right legal team. For everyone else, especially those employed by larger companies (who think they are so strong and powerful to be beyond reproach), that meet our internal criteria for aggressive employment litigation, we have a distinctive legal approach that you should seriously consider. To schedule your complimentary one-on-one meetingm> and learn how we can look to secure the payout that you rightfully deserve, contact us at Chris@NeufeldLegal.com or 403-400-4092.
For your Free Confidential Case Evaluation call 403-400-4092 or chris@neufeldlegal.com