Add your title here

This is the text area for this paragraph. To change it, simply click and start typing. Once you've added your content, you can customize its design by using different colors, fonts, font sizes and bullets. Just highlight the words you want to design and choose from the various options in the text editing bar.

This is the text area for this paragraph. To change it, simply click and start typing. After adding your content, you can customize it.

When an employment relationship unexpectedly ends, employers may provide severance pay to ease the burden of unemployment and to help its former employee transition into a new job. For employers, providing severance is often the fair thing to do, particularly for employees with many years of service. Providing severance pay also provides the employer with an excellent opportunity to obtain a release of claims from the employee which provides virtually blanket protection from any legal claims arising out of the employment relationship.

For employees, whether or not you can obtain severance is dependent on a number of variables — such as whether you have an employment agreement that provides for the payment of severance or whether the employer has its own policy providing for severance pay in certain situations. Many larger companies that have implemented reductions in force in these uncertain economic times have provided severance pay to employees who have been laid off.

Even in the absence of an employment agreement or an employer policy providing for severance, it still may be possible to negotiate severance depending on the circumstances underlying your termination. For example, if the facts indicate that you have been discriminated against because of a protected characteristic (i.e. your race, age, gender, color, national origin, disability, etc.), you may have the leverage to negotiate severance pay to settle your claim.

Marc has substantial experience drafting and negotiating severance agreements for both employers and employees and has also litigated a number of cases involving severance issues. In one such case, Marc represented a former employee of telecommunications giant Ericsson, Inc. in which the employee claimed entitlement to severance pay under an ERISA-based severance plan. After an adverse ruling by the United States District Court of Maryland, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the earlier ruling of the District Court and Marc's client was awarded substantial severance pay. A copy of the Court's decision can be found here.

New Paragraph

Reach Out

Severance Pay

Skilled Legal Representation

Add your title here

Can You Obtain Severance?

Severance Pay Attorney in Rockville, Maryland

Seek a Favorable Result

Put Experience On Your Side in Rockville

Fill out the attached form to request a free consultation of your case.

Contact Us

Visit Us Today

ADDRESS

PHONE

HOURS