49. Retention Bonuses and Agreements

"The key challenge of our times is to keep your key people."
Alan Shugart

1. NL 1: For Our Bear Stearns Friends and Similarly Situated Persons: Sklover’s Primer on Retention Agreements
2. NL 2: How to Negotiate “Retention Agreements”
3. NL 3: Retention Agreement Contain a Release? If So, It Just Might Be Your Severance
4. NL 4: “Employer Ask You to Sign an Agreement? Ask Your Employer to Pay Your Legal Cost”
5. NL 5: “Responding to a Retention Bonus Offer” – Ten Wise Steps”
6. NL 6: “This Contract Must Be Kept Confidential” Clause – Seven Points to Ponder
7. QA 1: “Can I ask a prospective employer to pay the retention package I will lose if I take the new job?”
8. QA 2: “How should I ask for a retention bonus?”
9. QA 3: “When is it proper to request a retention bonus?”
10. 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?”
11. 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?”
12. QA 6: “Any way I can get a ‘success bonus’ for helping attract a buyer for my company?”