Former 'NOTW' Staffers Offered Fat Severance Pay
Could each receive more than a year's salary
So much for those new jobs. News Corp. seems to be going back on its promise to find all former News of the World employees new positions within the company and is now offering them lucrative “early leaver” settlement packages, reports The Independent.
When the tabloid shut down last month, former editor Rebekah Brooks made it clear that every one of her ex-staffers would be offered another position within News International. But when the list of job openings was released—mostly noneditorial positions and in not-so-appealing places like Siberia—things began to look bleak for the out-of-work group.
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