Separation Anxiety: Best Practices for Employee Severance Agreements:

Employers deal with employee separations all the time. Back when I was an HR manager for a major airline, when it came time for a layoff or other not-for cause termination, most of the time I’d just pull the standard form separation agreement off the shelf, customize it a bit, and then work to get the employee to sign it. I confess that I never gave much thought to whether the separation agreement could ever be challenged, or worse, determined to be unenforceable...