Legal Question in Employment Law in New Jersey

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I know of no rule of law that requires a relocating company to offer employees severance packages nor did I find anything in some references that I would have expected to provide information if one existed. There is some case law that permits an employee to treat a long distance move as a constructive discharge even if the company claims that the job is still available. That would make unemployment benefits available to the employee and may trigger some contractual severance provisions if the company policy provides for that. Absent such a contractual provision, it would not require the company to offer a severance package and it is not obvious that the company would gain any benefit from such a package except for its employee relations effect. Noteably, a package in exchange for the employee's promise not to apply for unemployment benefits would not be enforceable. � There are some statutes that require notice from large companies which plan closures that would displace large numbers of workers. I assume that your situation does not fit there.

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