Got Trouble? We can help.

Sometimes, when you are about to lose your job, your employer may offer you a "severance" package or "separation" package - an amount of money that is meant to temporarily offset your job loss.

Employers are not required by labor law to give severance packages, but if you belong to a labor union, your labor union might have negotiated the terms of your severance package, and those terms might even appear in your union contract.