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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Siran Dunmorgan" data-source="post: 2760546" data-attributes="member: 39268">I can speak to some of this; many large companies have policies that originate in the idea that "we can't pay these people twice for doing the same job", i.e., they can't be hired during the time that their severance is in effect, e.g., if you have a three-month severance, they can't hire you back on a contractor basis for three months.I know people to whom this has happened; some of them even tried giving back the severance package in order to be hired as contractors immediately.  However, the company had already booked the severance as payroll expense and reported it to Internal Revenue: the company could not reasonably take it back.The extent to which a company can hire a third party—Elite Design Studio, in your example—who in turn hires the original employee varies on a state-by-state basis in the US.  It's perfectly legitimate in California, for example, but I believe is under certain restrictions in New York and some other states with strong protections for trade unions.  I don't know at all the extent to which this applies in Washington.—Siran Dunmorgan</blockquote>