golden handshake

golden handshake
A large payment to a senior employee who is forced into retirement or fired as a result of a takeover or similar development. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary

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golden handshake ˌgolden ˈhandshake also handshake noun [countable] HUMAN RESOURCES
a large amount of money given to a senior employee when he or she leaves a company, especially when they are being forced to leave:

• 200 university lecturers were made redundant with golden handshakes averaging £80,000.

• The retiring chief executive received a handshake of $27 million.

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golden handshake UK US noun [C] HR
a payment made to an employee when they leave their job as a reward for very long or good service: »

He is to leave with a golden handshake understood to total at least one year's salary.


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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