I have fired many with pay....from two weeks to a month severance
Yep.
More severance for a valued employee simply being laid off
I guess my work has been more direct. If someone was working with us, we needed the work completed on schedule. People got laid off when we got slow.
To get fired, it took some real effort (screw-up), typically after multiple written warnings. If they continued to break the rules, or did something bad enough to warrant immediate expulsion, we didn’t send them out with additional pay beyond what the worked.