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Re: British legal question
- Subject: Re: British legal question
- From: "Mike Bostock" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:44:56 +0000
In your message regarding British legal question dated Thu, 15 Feb 2001
19:20:09 -0500, Thomas Emberson said that ...
>TE-
>TE- A friend works at a company that was just purchased by a British
>TE- company. As with many mergers, a bunch of people are getting laid
>TE- off.
>TE-
>TE- The question is, is it common in Britain that severance packages
>TE- contain a clause ban the person from working for the company,
>TE- period. That include, contract work, directly or indirectly (as in
>TE- temp agency).
I am not a lawyer but I am am an employer in the UK - it is not uncommon
for such a clause to exist. In other words, acceptance of severance pay
(especially voluntary redundancy) on terms which include forfeiture of the
payment in the event of re-employment directly or indirectly with the same
company is a normal condition of such payment. You can't have your cake
and eat it!
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Mike Bostock
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