{"id":10664,"date":"2011-08-02T08:18:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2011-08-02T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:21:42","slug":"btc-separation-packages-average-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/btc-separation-packages-average-100000","title":{"rendered":"BTC Separation Packages Average $100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first wave of BTC employees who accepted voluntary separation packages left the company with an average financial package of at least $100,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Evans, president of the Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union, confirmed 161 employees left the company in staggered groups from 10am until the end of the work day.<\/p>\n<p>A union source said many in the group are either starting a new business, retiring or finding another job after pocketing the severance windfall.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on how much money they were given the source said: &#8220;An average of $100,000 each at least.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BTC is giving an average of $100,000 in the first round of voluntary employee separation packages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,146,72,43],"class_list":["post-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-btc","tag-cable-wireless","tag-employment","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}