Generally speaking California employers are not required to provide a employee with a severance agreement. Certainly, employers use severance agreements to control their future risk against lawsuits that could possibly cost them many times more than what they are paying the California employee.
Some employers have a practice of providing every employee a severance agreement and some California employers provide severance agreements to California employees that the employer believes may expose them to legal issues down the road.
Many times we are called on to review severance agreements or negotiate severance agreements that contain illegal and overbroad provisions that place the California employee in a peculiar position if the severance agreement is signed. In addition, many severance agreements we review and negotiate provide the California employee very little consideration (Wages or Money) in exchange for releasing all of their legal rights that they may or may not have against the California employer.
If you have been recently terminated, fired, laid off, or separated from your California employer and your California employer has provided you with a severance agreement that you need reviewed please call our California Severance Agreement lawyer today for a FREE initial consultation. Many times we can negotiate a severance agreement with a California employer on a flat fee basis. In addition, we can also provide the separated California employee with a legal opinion as to whether they have a viable wrongful termination case against their California employer, which would put into question whether the
severance agreement should be executed or not. Call today to protect your California employment rights.
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