49. Retention Bonuses and Agreements
"The key challenge of our times is to keep your key people."
Alan Shugart
- NL 1: For Our Bear Stearns Friends and Similarly Situated Persons: Sklover’s Primer on Retention Agreements
- NL 2: How to Negotiate “Retention Agreements”
- NL 3: Retention Agreement Contain a Release? If So, It Just Might Be Your Severance
- NL 4: “Employer Ask You to Sign an Agreement? Ask Your Employer to Pay Your Legal Cost”
- NL 5: “Responding to a Retention Bonus Offer” – Ten Wise Steps”
- NL 6: “This Contract Must Be Kept Confidential” Clause – Seven Points to Ponder
- QA 1: “Can I ask a prospective employer to pay the retention package I will lose if I take the new job?”
- QA 2: “How should I ask for a retention bonus?”
- QA 3: “When is it proper to request a retention bonus?”
- QA 4: “How much should my husband ask to be ‘retained’ by his company for six months longer than he would like to stay on?”
- QA 5: “My employer is selling my division, and would like me to agree to stay on after the sale. How much retention and severance monies should I expect?”
- QA 6: “Any way I can get a ‘success bonus’ for helping attract a buyer for my company?”
“If you live your life the right way,
your later years will not be a winter,
but rather a harvest.”