Massachusetts General Separation Notice
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It depends. If the parties agreed in the contract that resignation should be made with 60-day prior written notice, or any longer period for that matter, then that stipulation is enforceable by the employer.
An employer who wants to avoid paying severance must provide advanced written notice the longer you have worked at the company, the more notice must be provided. According to the employment standards in Alberta: After serving three months, an employer must give you one week's notice.
If you sign a severance agreement that includes a release of claims against your employer, you can collect unemployment while you are receiving severance pay. Most severance agreements include a release of claims. If you have signed a release, the money you receive does not count against your unemployment.
Federally, and in most states, a termination letter is not legally required. In some states, currently including Arizona, California, Illinois and New Jersey, written termination notices are required by law. Some of these states have specific templates employers must use for the letter.
Although it seems almost impossible to believe, employers in Massachusetts, or in any other employee-at-will state, can fire any employee at any time for any reason or even for no reason at all. An employer can terminate any employee, with or without notice.
Massachusetts is an employment at-will state, so an employer can terminate an employee at any time, for any reason. You are entitled to receive, on the day of your discharge, unpaid wages, unused vacation time, and certain other benefits under the Wage Act. However, you are not entitled to a severance package.
If an employee has been with the company for more than three months but less than a year, the employer needs to give at least 14 days of notice. The notice is not necessary if the employee is being terminated for misconduct.
Massachusetts law is clear; if you were terminated or laid-off, you are owed your last paycheck on the same day. If you quit, you are owed your final paycheck by the next regularly scheduled payday. So, if you normally are paid every Friday, and you quit, you should receive your last paycheck on that Friday.
Though sometimes used interchangeably, termination pay and severance pay are not the same thing. While all employees of three months or longer with a company are entitled to termination pay (in place of notice) upon dismissal, not everyone is entitled to severance pay.
Generally, neither party is required to give any form of notice or warning before terminating the employment relationship. Here is some information on at-will employment law in Massachusetts.
