My sister who worked as a senior optic designer for 2.5 years in Nortel, got laid off three weeks ago from long_haul optical R&D in skyline area, and she only got such as the standard package including 2 months notification plus two months basic compensation plus service compensation (based on your work time, two years is equal to one month). This compensation rule is already posted on the NT's internal website, and at least 15 of her laid colleagues had such kind of compensation package, so I think your friend is very special.