Employee severance plans agreements must be entered into knowingly and voluntarily

When Coors Brewing, a large US brewing company, announced it was reducing its workforce, the security department employees where told the company intended to eliminate nine full-time employees from the department. Seven security department members then accepted voluntary severance packages and signed waivers. When the company advertised seven openings and employed seven new people, mostly under 40 years, for the department, the severed employees believed the company had determined to get rid of...

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13.8 Manage legal and ethical issues
9.3.6 Restructure & rightsize workforce
9.8.1 Manage labour-management relationships.