If they fire you as an individual and then bring you back, certainly. If it's part of a layoff done this rapidly, its much more likely that it was just a catego

If they fire you as an individual and then bring you back, certainly. If it's part of a layoff done this rapidly, its much more likely that it was just a categorizing error. So you probably don't have massive leverage. That said, you definitely shouldn't accept a worse deal.