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Common Concerns About Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plans—and Why They Deserve a Closer Look

When organizations evaluate severance alternatives, one option often generates immediate questions: Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plans.

The Employee Experience During a Layoff: How HR Can Support People Through Uncertainty

How an organization handles a layoff can shape its reputation for years. Former employees become future candidates, customers, referral sources, and brand...

The Cost of Defaulting to Severance

In workforce reduction planning, speed and familiarity often drive decisions. When timelines are tight and emotions are high, many organizations default to...

How SUB Plans Can Reduce Workforce Reduction Costs While Supporting Employees

When companies plan workforce reductions, severance is often viewed as the default approach. But many employers are surprised to learn there may be a more...

Beyond Severance: How Payment Structure Can Impact Taxes and Take-Home Pay

When organizations plan workforce reductions, the focus is often on the amount being paid to employees. However, the structure of those payments can also...

Why Severance Is Structurally Inefficient

Most companies don’t design a severance strategy—they inherit one. Severance has become the default approach to supporting employees during layoffs. It’s...

Beyond Severance: A Smarter Way to Support Employees While Reducing Costs

Workforce transitions don’t have to be a tradeoff between compassion and cost control.

Mergers and Acquisitions, Integration, and Workforce Redundancy: Why SUB Plans Are a Smarter Multi-State Transition Tool

Post-deal integration often begins in January, and for HR teams, that means addressing an uncomfortable but common reality: workforce redundancy. Overlapping...

Employee Experience Doesn’t End When Employment Ends: How SUB Plans Transform Offboarding Into a Strategic Moment of Care

In today’s dynamic labor market, layoffs, restructurings, and realignments are no longer exceptional events. They are a recurring feature of business strategy...

Rethinking Severance: Why It’s Time to Consider a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan

As companies enter year-end planning season, many finance and HR leaders are taking a hard look at workforce costs — including severance.

TSI joins Ogletree Deakins to talk about a better way to handle severance.

In the episode, Elizabeth and Mike discuss how SUB Plans can save employers 30–50% while helping employees maintain steady income after a layoff. They also...

Discover how Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (SUB) Plans can save companies money while protecting their people.

We’re proud to share that Elizabeth Lutes of Transition Services, Inc. (TSI) joined Wendy Sellers (“The HR Lady”) on the HR Empowerment podcast to discuss a...

Worried About Layoffs? There's a Way to Soften the Blow.

For decades, severance has been the default approach to layoffs. But it’s far from perfect. It treats every departure the same, regardless of whether someone...

Severance Isn’t Scalable. SUB Plans Are.

When layoffs happen, employers are often stuck between two difficult options: pay traditional severance and pay a high cost or pay less and risk reputational...

How to Lay Off with Compassion - Without Breaking the Bank

Why more employers are turning to SUB Plans as a cost-effective, people-first alternative to severance. Layoffs are hard. For employees, they represent the...

What Happens to the People Without a Parachute?

Layoffs happen. Sometimes they’re strategic. Sometimes they’re reactive. But whether it’s a single role being eliminated or a sweeping cost-cutting measure,...

A Safety Net for All: Why Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Belong in Every Company’s Toolkit

In today’s unpredictable business landscape, financial security is a growing concern for employees at every level. As companies adapt to economic shifts,...

Understanding Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plans and Why They're Gaining Popularity

In today’s rapidly changing economic climate, many organizations are looking for new ways to protect and support their workforce. In times of unexpected...

Ditch the Old Severance: 5 Reasons Why SUB is a Game-Changer

Severance packages are outdated While many companies continue to rely on these traditional methods to manage layoffs, they often fall short in providing...

Navigating Workforce Reductions with Compassion and Strategy

General Motors recently announced another round of layoffs, impacting approximately 1,000 employees, primarily in North America. Workforce reductions are...

Beyond Severance: Why Boeing Should Opt for a Cost-Saving SUB Plan

Recently, the U.S. aerospace giant announced plans to reduce its workforce by approximately 17,000 employees—a 10% reduction globally—due to financial strain...

Why Companies Should Consider a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan Amid the Dockworkers’ Strike

Earlier this week, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) officially launched one of the largest U.S. port shutdowns in nearly 50 years,...

Striking a Balance

A little-known alternative to severance, a Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (SUB) Plan, can help retain workers during a shutdown. Retaining a workforce is...

Navigating Economic Uncertainties: The CFO's Guide to Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plans

In the dynamic realm of financial leadership, Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are navigating further challenges in 2024, marked by an election year, high...

Severance Reimagined with SUB Plans: An Alternative to the Traditional Severance Plan

A SUB Plan is severance reimagined. Short for Supplemental Unemployment Benefits, SUB is the common sense alternative to the traditional severance plan. While...

Bridge to New Employment: Rethinking Severance

Severance plans may be a sore subject, but looking at alternatives can mean getting more for less. If the goal of your company’s severance plan is to provide...

Elevate Your Financial Outlook in 2024 with SUB Plans!

Explore the impact of Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (SUB) Plans to enhance year-round savings and optimize costs during employee separations. Transition...

Strategic HR Planning for 2024: Trading Severance Packages for Supplemental Unemployment Benefits

As we approach the end of the year, human resources (HR) professionals find themselves in the familiar position of planning for the year ahead. It is a...

Streamlining Employee Separations & Transforming Traditional Severance by Implementing a SUB Plan

Are you looking for ways to add value to your company’s bottom line? Expand your knowledge of employment law, learn the fundamentals of a little-known...

When To Consider Implementing a SUB Plan

Transitioning to a Supplemental Unemployment Benefits plan is a big decision, and is not something which can be done overnight. The implementation process...

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 5: Protect Against Future Incidents

Organizations throughout the country currently face the critical issue of how to implement strategies to protect against costly layoffs in the future. The 2008...

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 4: It Benefits HR

Make Severance Easier for your Human Resources Team The mere thought of severance is often enough to frustrate any HR professional - not only because...

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 3: Economic Gains

Severance is Costly In times of trouble, the cost of severing an employee seems minor compared to what is often a company-wide critical financial situation....

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 2: Use Existing Infrastructure

The first in our current "Top 5" list named Regulatory Expertise as a primary reason for a company to outsource its severance programming. The second reason a...

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 1: Leverage Existing Expertise

The severance plan model, oft dismissed as a benefit that is used en masse typically only during turbulent times, remains untouched and archaic even today –...

Navigating Manufacturing Industry Disruptions with Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Plans

The manufacturing industry is no stranger to disruptions. From equipment maintenance and plant retooling to unexpected weather events, temporary shutdowns are...

Understanding the Value of Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Plans in Manufacturing

In the dynamic landscape of the manufacturing industry, disruptions are inevitable. Whether it's plant retooling, adverse weather conditions, or unexpected...

Make Severance Easier for Your Human Resources Team

The mere thought of severance is often enough to frustrate any HR professional - not only because its underlying meaning points to organizational difficulty,...

For some Organizations, a SUB Plan might just be the edge needed to retain its employees or remain open during a recession

Becoming recession-proof as an employer by looking at creative ways to save as we broach a recession.

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Common Concerns About Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plans—and Why They Deserve a Closer Look

The Employee Experience During a Layoff: How HR Can Support People Through Uncertainty

The Cost of Defaulting to Severance

How SUB Plans Can Reduce Workforce Reduction Costs While Supporting Employees

Beyond Severance: How Payment Structure Can Impact Taxes and Take-Home Pay

Why Severance Is Structurally Inefficient

Beyond Severance: A Smarter Way to Support Employees While Reducing Costs

Mergers and Acquisitions, Integration, and Workforce Redundancy: Why SUB Plans Are a Smarter Multi-State Transition Tool

Employee Experience Doesn’t End When Employment Ends: How SUB Plans Transform Offboarding Into a Strategic Moment of Care

Rethinking Severance: Why It’s Time to Consider a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan

TSI joins Ogletree Deakins to talk about a better way to handle severance.

Discover how Supplemental Unemployment Benefits (SUB) Plans can save companies money while protecting their people.

Worried About Layoffs? There's a Way to Soften the Blow.

Severance Isn’t Scalable. SUB Plans Are.

How to Lay Off with Compassion - Without Breaking the Bank

What Happens to the People Without a Parachute?

A Safety Net for All: Why Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Belong in Every Company’s Toolkit

Understanding Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plans and Why They're Gaining Popularity

Ditch the Old Severance: 5 Reasons Why SUB is a Game-Changer

Navigating Workforce Reductions with Compassion and Strategy

Beyond Severance: Why Boeing Should Opt for a Cost-Saving SUB Plan

Why Companies Should Consider a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan Amid the Dockworkers’ Strike

Striking a Balance

Navigating Economic Uncertainties: The CFO's Guide to Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plans

Severance Reimagined with SUB Plans: An Alternative to the Traditional Severance Plan

Bridge to New Employment: Rethinking Severance

Elevate Your Financial Outlook in 2024 with SUB Plans!

Strategic HR Planning for 2024: Trading Severance Packages for Supplemental Unemployment Benefits

Streamlining Employee Separations & Transforming Traditional Severance by Implementing a SUB Plan

When To Consider Implementing a SUB Plan

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 5: Protect Against Future Incidents

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 4: It Benefits HR

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 3: Economic Gains

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 2: Use Existing Infrastructure

Why Should Severance be Outsourced? Part 1: Leverage Existing Expertise

Navigating Manufacturing Industry Disruptions with Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Plans

Understanding the Value of Supplemental Unemployment Benefits Plans in Manufacturing

Make Severance Easier for Your Human Resources Team

For some Organizations, a SUB Plan might just be the edge needed to retain its employees or remain open during a recession