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Is it legit? I saw a few 30 days left to live stories here, now 30 days for startup to live. Is it PR shit or real deal? If you fire employee you must pay compensation, so how can you not able to pay his payroll of week? If you fire him it will be more expensive then one weeks payroll.

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In most states of the US (at will employment), you do not have to pay that much severance. So you can either pay an employee their salary every 2 weeks (and their vacation is paid), or pay then 2 weeks severance.

The amounts might not be that different. $2k paycheck versus $3k severance.

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