That looks like a giant fault in employment law to me. I don't understand why a severance package should be something subject to negotiation. Write a law with

That looks like a giant fault in employment law to me. I don't understand why a severance package should be something subject to negotiation. Write a law with a very simple function of years of service, pay and age and let that spit out a number. Done. No time and money wasted negotiating, employers and employees know what they're getting. When I was let off in 2009, I basically wasted 4 or 5 months at my old job waiting to get fired because the law required that much time for a collective termination. The outcome of that "negotiation" was not different than it was at day one, so I just don't get it.