Reply #12: Got my paper in 1992 and they held my vacation and

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1 week per year severance (6 weeks total). I was happy to sign and get the severance.

I am hoping, if my current employer now pulls the trigger, they do what they did in the 1980s (highly unlikely), a month a year to one year. I expect to see another week per year.

Never saw anything about non-compete clauses. That would be really cold in addition to getting laid off. The time to sign non-compete clauses is when you join a company not when you are walked out. The ones I have seen usually only apply to voluntary separation/separation for cause.

Never ever sign anything that agrees you are being terminated for cause (that is unless they are ready to hand you a huge cashiers check).