{"id":47,"date":"2026-10-01T06:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/offered-a-severance-agreement-what-to-check-before-you-sign\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:23:02","slug":"offered-a-severance-agreement-what-to-check-before-you-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/offered-a-severance-agreement-what-to-check-before-you-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Offered a severance agreement? What to check before you sign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A severance agreement usually pays you in exchange for giving up claims against your employer. Read the release first: it says which claims you give up (sample note).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then check the payment: how much, when, and whether it includes holiday pay you are owed anyway. Look for confidentiality, reference and non-compete clauses, and the date the offer expires.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many agreements give you time to take advice. This note is general information; the terms that apply to you depend on your contract and the law of your state.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you would give up, what you would get, and the date it expires (sample note).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}