职场小贴士：如果你这周被解雇，别急着签字。冷静下来，回家好好看看你的离职协议，有啥不合适的，大胆去谈！

One VERY wrong piece of advice. That meeting is NOT the time to do anything.

Don't say a word, don't sign anything and immediately go see a labour lawyer.

If they ask you to sign, tell them that you never sign any legal documents without having your lawyer review them first.

Then go find a lawyer and review the document with them. I worked as a consultant with HR departments and the stories I heard regarding terminations were insane. Like people could have just said: "I don't think that offer is fair" and getting 30-40% more cash.

The fact that people think, they have an upper hand in negotiations when the employer can just say NO to anything you say and hand you the basic severance papers, is unbelievable. The employer can literally say "If we let you get away with free healthcare we have to give all 4000 other fires free healthcare, so no". Same reason you cannot "Negotiate" your way out of a ticket the cop is writing to you. Just accept it, be sad for a day or two and move on. Unpopular opinion but weren't we meant to be replaceable when we are employed? Who in the world told us that we are not replaceable and we get replaced why do we be sad? Even CEOs get replaced.

Just a head’s up that the description of the amount of time for consideration of a release and the revocation period is not accurate. It’s 21 days to consider and 7 days from signing to revoke if you’re over 40 and it’s not a group termination (2+ employees). If it’s a group termination, you have 45 days to consider with a 7 day revocation period.

If you’re under 40, you don’t get a specific amount of time to consider or a revocation period. It’s NOT true that everyone gets 7 days.

In probably all jurisdictions, an overnight consideration period is very like NOT to be held to be sufficient for the release to be enforceable. You’re releasing valuable rights in those agreements and should be given time to seek legal counsel and think it over for the release to be “knowing and voluntary.”