Unless you had your severance package pre-negotiated as part of your hiring contract it sure is negotiable. Every article out there will tell you that you should attempt to negotiate. Especially if the offer is sh---y like the one a lot of us have received. There's no guarantee they will budge but you have nothing to lose at this point.
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Severance isn't negotiable. Companies don't have to pay any Severance pay. It's take it or leave it.
Appeal to sense of fair play. Look at the severance packages given out by Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm. Talk about your contributions. Seems like when it's time for layoffs the only thing that matters is what did you do for me yesterday.
How on earth would this be negotiable? You don't take it, they say fine go file for unemployment.
Here in CA we haven't even received our official severance offers. Supposedly they'll be sent out tomorrow the 17th. But from everything I've heard and seen they're offering way below the current industry standard.
No but the ones who do will probably have gone and gotten a contract/employment attorney to do it for them. Due to the "unconventional" way the layoffs were handled, there was no window of opportunity to do so. So once that call or meeting ended with you, it was a sort of hastened verbal contract between you and the company that has no further obligation to respond to you. Do you have a hard copy of your employment contract or the ViaGuide you signed way back when? Didn't think so. If you are really hurting and need some financial stability while you job hunt, it's probably a worthwhile investment to hire a lawyer to do it for you. Otherwise you're at the mercy of the 800 person backlog P&C is hoping just gives up and moves on our of frustration in an effort to save the company extra dollars. Ask yourself, is the well being of the company's former employees really a priority right now when they want to be "cash flow positive" by 2024?
This is a good question... of course HR said it was impossible when I probed during the RIF call, but of course they'd say that.
Guessing that you'd need an attorney involved and then you'd be shelling out for that while risking the severance.