http://articles.latimes.com/1996-04-21/business/fi-61156_1_severance-pay
"...there is no statutory requirement that an employer provide an employee who is being laid off with either two weeks' notice or severance pay."
http://humanresources.about.com/od/glossarys/a/severance_pay.htm
"No law requires an employer to pay severance pay. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that an employer pay an employee whose employment has been terminated their regular wages through their completion date and for any time that the employee has accrued. This normally includes accrued vacation time, but not normally sick days."
Severances are only mandatory IF you have it explicitly in your employment contract (I.E UNION contract). Since NOBODY at CCI has that, severances are not your right. Don't let uneducated co-workers tell you otherwise. Don't count on CCI to offer these at bankruptcy time when their cash-debt ratio is near 3-1..by law, CREDITORS get paid first...not severance packages.
Time to grow up