Termination
Termination, severance, and final-pay obligations.
Cesantías in Colombia: the annual severance deposit, 12% interest, and the 14 February deadline
Cesantías in Colombia are severance savings: one month of salary for every year of service, which the employer calculates on 31 December and deposits by 14 February into a fondo de cesantías, the severance fund the…
Niko Nurmentaus
Product Lead
Terminating an Employee in the UK: The Steps and How Severance Is Calculated
In the UK, the statutory payout for a dismissal is usually the small number, and the tribunal risk is the big one. Statutory redundancy pay is modest and capped: for 2026/27 a week's pay counts for at most £751, so the…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
Terminating an Employee in Germany: The Steps and How Severance Is Calculated
The surprising thing about ending an employment relationship in Germany is that the country has some of the strongest dismissal protection in Europe and, at the same time, no automatic right to severance. Those two…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
Terminating an Employee in Portugal: The Steps and How Severance Is Calculated
The first thing to understand about ending an employment relationship in Portugal is that an employer cannot simply decide to let someone go. Job security is a constitutional right (Article 53 of the Constitution…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
Terminating an Employee in Mexico: The Steps and How Severance Is Calculated
The single most important thing to understand about ending an employment relationship in Mexico is that there is no cheap, quiet way to let someone go without cause. Mexican severance is statutory, it combines several…
Greg Miaskiewicz
CEO & Co-Founder
