[benchtobedside]

One thing to consider if you have any foreign employees you sponsor on temporary working visas (think H1B, E3, etc.) to work in the US: Oftentimes these folks will have extremely limited time to get their affairs in order and leave the country if they can't find another job.

One thing you can do, that costs you nothing, is give them the option to instead continue to work out their 2 months in lieu of severance to provide an extra 60 days of job search.

Quite often they'll have a family, home, car and assets in the US that they'll need to deal with if they can't secure another job in that limited window.

[rtp4me]

Yeah, to me this is the difficult one - someone on a temporary working visa. Unlike people who don't require visas and can can immediately start looking for work, (I understand) visas require sponsorship. This, in turn, can cause huge family and financial hardships since their lives will be uprooted as they return back to their country. Imagine one of your visa workers just bought a home two months ago and now must leave the country.

I don't know the visa working rules very well. Does anyone know how long a visa worker can reside in country while looking for another job/sponsorship?