Severance Automation

Reduce administrative tasks and prevent mistakes

With configurable severance automation tools, Onwards HR helps employers streamline the separation process in compliance with corporate policy and employment laws. By automating administrative tasks, your team will be able to spend more time adding value to the business. Plus, severance automation makes it easy to provide benefits to outgoing employees, reducing legal risk by helping retain existing talent, improve morale, and preserve your brand.

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Consistent Severance Pay Calculations

Severance pay mistakes are all too common, but our severance pay calculator makes accuracy easy.

  • Manage all of your severance policies for each entity, country, union, etc.

  • Model severance pay scenarios to determine best path for the business

  • Manually override severance pay calculations when employee exceptions are required

  • Easily review a current snapshot of severance pay totals throughout each phase of the separation process

  • Automatically recalculate severance when changes arise, such as updated timelines and internal transfers

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WARN & Preliminary Notifications

Some severance events require delivery of specific notices in accordance with employment law.

  • Automatically generate preliminary notifications when RIFs warrant advanced notice, reducing time spent on administrative tasks

  • Comply with the WARN Act by delivering notifications that adhere to legally mandated timelines

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Severance Package Generation

Using configurable templates, you can quickly generate severance packages with dynamic documents. 

  • Integrate your company’s policies with our rules engine to generate template content driven by specific business rules (e.g. country, length of service, union/non-union, job grades)

  • Customize your workflow to automatically generate documents when the process reaches a certain stage

  • Regenerate documents based on unique business rules or triggers without manual intervention 

  • Easily locate and review the documents created for each employee

ADEA / OWBPA Disclosures & Waivers

Prevent potentially costly age discrimination claims by complying with the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA), a part of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

  • Automatically generate waivers for protected employees

  • Ensure waivers are valid and fulfill OWBPA’s seven mandated waiver criteria

  • Track adherence to legally required waiver review time periods

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Notification, Delivery & Signature

Save time and frustration by allowing technology to manage notifications, deliveries, signatures, and other off-boarding tasks

  • Leverage a configurable checklist when notifying employees about an upcoming separation

  • Promptly deliver severance packages with peace of mind, knowing they’re customized to each employee 

  • Easily capture electronic signatures, review signature status, and follow-up with employees who have yet to sign

  • Track other key off-boarding tasks such as collection of employee equipment and employee access shutoff.