- Severance pay is a term we use when we make an agreement to terminate the employment.
Where we as employees and employers agree to go our separate ways, says Hanna Vesterlund.
In the vast majority of cases, these are mainly long-term illnesses.
Where you have worked with rehabilitation for a long time but where nothing has worked.
Then why not fire the person instead?
- It is possible to do it.
We have a legal basis for this, but we have chosen to take a different path and offer severance pay instead, says Hanna Vesterlund.
Working to reduce sickness rates
What could the municipality have done for mistakes that make you need to sign severance pay?
- I can not see that we have done anything wrong, but on the other hand you can always think about what you can do in the future.
There is a learning in this as well.
Among other things, the municipality has worked actively to reduce sickness rates, which has been a major cause of several severance pay.
- Today we work much more promotionally and preventively with occupational health care now than we did before.
In the video above, Hanna Vesterlund talks about how individuals can react when an agreement on severance pay is signed.