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Or they're paying a 10% bonus of yearly salary as payment if they're willing to train their replacement.

If someone offered me $10K extra on top of my salary to take the trash out and clean the company kitchen for 2 weeks, I would gladly do it without blinking, even if it's a little humbling. I don't know about you. Calling it extortion is a bit much.

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> If someone offered me $10K to take the trash out and clean the company kitchen for 2 weeks, I would gladly do it without blinking, even if it's a little humbling. I don't know about you.

You mean 90 days, because that's the requirement in their agreement. And its not "taking out the trash", its directly training your lower-wage foreign replacement.

Maybe you might feel differently if you were being fired at the end of those two weeks?

It's more than that with big employers like Disney in towns with limited options. You end up getting blackballed from future employment with contract providers if you say or do anything perceived negative.

10% is around a months wages. I'd tell them to get lost if that's all they offered to train my replacement (plus regular salary), I could find a new job in less than a month. I'd need a few months severance to go through that level of embarrassment, and not contingent on me finding a new job.

I believe they have been given notices longer than a month.

Anyway, it's a financial transaction for knowledge and labor like any other, if you think you're getting a raw deal, you should not accept the deal.

Not sure how it is financial extortion though.

Because you've taken people who are at a very vulnerable spot in their lives, and who are probably going through a lot of self doubt as to whether they'll be able to find another job in that time.

Very easy to say from a distance. Imagine actually doing what they were coerced into doing.

That's a completely different situation and you know it.

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