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. We make it easy to provide offboarding benefits, leading to reduced legal risk, improved morale, and brand preservation. Plus, by automating administrative tasks, your team can spend more time focused on the business.

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Calculate severance pay consistently

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

  • Easily manage severance policies for by entity, country, union, etc.

  • Model severance pay scenarios to determine best business approach

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

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

  • Manually override severance pay calculations when exceptions arise

Learn more about how Onwards HR helps Finance teams.

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Deliver WARN notices & preliminary notifications

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

  • Automatically generate preliminary notifications when a separation warrants advanced notice, reducing time spent on administrative tasks and improving the employee exit experience

  • Comply with the WARN Act/Mini-WARN Acts by evaluating whether they apply and, if so, delivering compliant notifications

Learn more about Onwards HR’s Workforce Compliance capabilities.

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Automate severance packages

Our rules engine is configurable, enabling you to create templates and generate dynamic severance packages — all based on your company’s policies.

  • Generate severance package templates with content driven by specific business rules

  • 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

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Generate OWBPA disclosures

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

  • Automatically generate OWBPA disclosure for protected workers

  • Ensure compliance with OWBPA’s seven mandated waiver criteria

  • Track adherence to legally required waiver review periods

Explore other Legal benefits.

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Manage notifications, delivery & signatures

Reduce time and frustration by using technology to manage notifications, deliveries, signatures, and other offboarding tasks

  • Leverage a configurable checklist to manage each step of a separation

  • Promptly deliver severance packages with peace of mind

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

  • Track other key offboarding tasks, such as collection of employee equipment and deprovisioning

Learn more about how our tools help Human Resources teams.