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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.

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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.

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