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The university said it was "carefully managing staff vacancies and offering a voluntary severance scheme to help avoid the need for compulsory redundancies".

The organization “was fully meeting its contractual obligations to the voters by offering the severance,” the statement said.

RTO mandates can also be a strategic way for companies to reduce staff without layoffs or severance.

The spokesman also said Reeves left in 2009 "on good terms and received a severance payment, including her full notice pay and bonus".

The email offered current federal employees the option of around eight months of severance pay, in exchange for an immediate resignation.