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📄 The Layoff Resilience Playbook

A free 39-page guide, updated for the EPF Scheme 2026, the Labour Codes' statutory severance floor, and the December 2025 NPS exit rules — EMI restructuring scripts, EPF & NPS withdrawal walkthroughs, severance negotiation checklists, and the full 90-day financial planning sequence — straight to your inbox.

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What's inside

Chapter 1

Day 1: The Four Things To Do Tonight

Document the termination conversation, confirm your health cover end date in writing, defer every decision for 48 hours, and tell one person.

Chapter 2

The Seven-Day Sequence

A day-by-day roadmap for week one — documentation, the runway number, health insurance, the lender call, your CA, and the statutory-floor check.

Chapter 3

The Runway Worksheet

Calculate your exact runway in months by hand, and find your risk band — from Critical to Strong.

Chapter 4

The Lender Conversation Script

Word-for-word what to say to your home loan provider — tenure extension, moratorium, and step-down EMI options.

Chapter 5

HR Severance Checklist

What to confirm in writing before you sign — compensation components, RSU treatment, benefits continuity, and final settlement.

Chapter 6

The Statutory Floor (Labour Codes)

What Section 70 of the Industrial Relations Code guarantees your exit is worth, and how to check your letter against it.

Chapter 7

The CA Brief Template

An email you can copy and send in 5 minutes — arrears relief, Schedule FA disclosure, and RSU sell-down planning.

Chapter 8

EPF Withdrawal Under the 2026 Scheme

Which of the two withdrawal routes applies to you, and why the "75% after one month" rule you've read elsewhere no longer exists.

Chapter 9

NPS At Layoff

Which exit gate applies to you, and why the widely-reported fifteen-year route probably isn't yours.

Chapter 10

Health Insurance Porting & The 90-Day Review

The tight porting window most people miss, plus checkpoints to run at the day 30, 60, and 90 marks.

Numbers that matter

15 days/yr
Statutory retrenchment floor under the Labour Codes — 15 days' average pay per completed year of service
45 days
IRDAI window to port group health insurance without fresh waiting periods
12 months
EPF membership — not unemployment — that actually governs your partial withdrawal access under the 2026 Scheme
39 pages
2026 Edition, Version 2.0 — calibrated to Pune, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad households

Written for senior engineers, engineering managers, and tech leads in Pune (Hinjewadi, Magarpatta, Kharadi), Bengaluru (Whitefield, Electronic City), and Hyderabad (HITEC City) who've been notified of a separation in 2026. In FY26 the IT sector grew revenue roughly three times faster than headcount (NASSCOM), with the top-four services firms posting a net headcount reduction in the June 2026 quarter — a re-sorting, not a dip that waits itself out. Generic layoff advice doesn't survive contact with a Hinjewadi home loan — the numbers, scripts, and decision frameworks here are calibrated to that profile, and this edition has been rebuilt for the EPF, Labour Code, and NPS rules currently in force.

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