A company has decided to outsource the department while an employee is on LTD7

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@Caro

Re #3, you should be offered the same severance as the rest of your group

You probably will be or they’ll just leave you on the books.
The employer may have “forgotten” about you if they have an employment category like “permanent medical leave”.

I wouldn’t count on severance:

Severance std question

You would need to consult a lawyer on this because there is no easy answer – would depend on a lot of things, including are you in a union, low long employed, etc. It is important to appreciate that there is no right to severance per se, unless in rare situations where such a right is included in a collective agreement between a union and the employer. All employees are entitled to is notice that their job will end. Each province has labour codes or laws that set out what the minimum notice pe…

@Elaine

My policy says that they won’t deduct severance from my LTD.

If it doesn’t say “severance” then it probably isn’t deductible.
I would send them an email after you get it just to make sure.
I would check everything but that is just me.

Best of luck.