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Title: Microsoft asks laid off workers to return part of severance Post by: Alex on February 23, 2009, 05:56:34 AM Microsoft asks laid off workers to return part of severance
Last month Microsoft let go 1400 workers as part of their plan to lay off 5000 people over 18 months and of course with most redundancies there was some sort of severance pay, but it seems Microsoft thought the money given was just a bit more then they had desired. Techcrunch got access to a document that was sent out to some of the workers who were let go, instructing them that due to an accounting error, they will need to pay back some of the money that they received. Microsoft says that employees who have been sent letters (many of which are unemployed at the moment) have 14 days to return the money. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/kX6AGONS1G0/microsoft-asks-laid-off-workers-to-return-part-of-severance |