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**Discus** · 03-24-2011, 06:38 AM

It depends what you mean by severance pay. It's illegal to tell somebody "you're fired, go home and never return" then only pay them time worked. You'll always need to pay more, unless it's for cause or they're in a probationary period.

Here there is always a required "period of notice", except for casual employees. If you just tell somebody to get lost you need to pay out the notice period.

03-24-2011, 06:38 AM	#24
Discus Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 471 Senior Member	It depends what you mean by severance pay. It's illegal to tell somebody "you're fired, go home and never return" then only pay them time worked. You'll always need to pay more, unless it's for cause or they're in a probationary period. Here there is always a required "period of notice", except for casual employees. If you just tell somebody to get lost you need to pay out the notice period.
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