Pfizer employees discuss ongoing and upcoming layoffs alongside updates to the company separation plan reducing healthcare and severance benefits starting next year.

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        "author": "bizmike88",
        "excerpt": "You get to keep your insurance at your normal premium for two years or until you get a new job.\n\n Your husband can search “separation package” on the internal sharepoint site and can get all this info plus a calculator of what you can expect his severance to be.",
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        "excerpt": "An email went around called “Important Update: Changes to Pfizer US Separation Plan”. It outlines the medical benefit as well as other severance benefits. According to that email, you get one year of continuing coverage (until you find a new employer). You still have to cover your share of the premium (ie. You still pay whatever is being withheld per pay period, but not the full COBRA amount). You",
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        "excerpt": "lol, the rest of us wish we would be let go by pfizer. Healthcare coverage for a year. Most of us are lucky to get a few months.",
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        "excerpt": "Your husband should access the Separation Plan for his region. It covers all things severance and benefits. It's located with all the other HR related policies. If he's been there 12 years, he knows the system I'm referencing.",
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        "excerpt": "We got an email earlier this year. If he gets laid off now, you’ll have the healthcare for two years. Starting next year it’s reduced to one year & the severance package also shrinks from 10 weeks + 3 weeks for each year of employment to 10 years + 2 weeks per",
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        "excerpt": "Was a Pfizer employee until headcount reduction wave Y 2023.\n\n You get normal pay through the 60 day WARN, nothing changes. After the 60 Day WARN period ends and the severance payments begin, heathcare is not deducted from your severance and you pay your normal Healthcare plan cost directly to Fidelity NetBenefits and for up to 2 years. After that you have to go on COBRA. You can use an autopay fe",
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        "excerpt": "It’s just depends on the company. When Takeda closed their San Diego site everyone got to continue paying what they were usually paying monthly for their medical for the length of the severance (varied 2 months to a year). Then it switched to cobra pricing (ie you pay all of it)",
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        "excerpt": "Depends on severance package, mine included a month of health coverage, but then option for cobra. I also got a separate payment to cover the cost for a bronze aca plan for one year, which was nice given how annoying the whole layoff was, but at the same time if youre the primary breadwinner its kind of frustrating since healthcare is really expensive. However, i didnt get health insurance for a w",
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