Around 50 and 25 years of service. Work hard rated 2-2 or 2-3. If Boston consulting group algorithm is right should I take severance or wait for class action to form. I feel like I work twice as hard as others with No Pension just to hope to survive to 30 years. If there was no pension pot of gold I’d be gone on my own accord.
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Lawsuit 1000 percent
Okay you guys and gals over 50. Get ready and lawyer up.
Don't go to Ford HR they will not help but work against you! Remember it's "Ford" HR that does not support the employee.
Get a lawyer.
@w1+1jrkwwdcs that is so true. unfortunately the 30-and-out rule combined with "hardly anyone ever gets fired for low effort" makes for a whole lot of coasters... not that i blame them really. it was pretty irritating as a young engineer to see guys making tons more money who barely lifted a finger to help though. and sometimes actively got in the way of progress (even worse really). well that doesnt matter now, you are just a number in the ford family of fine numbers. (remember when the keys used to say "the ford family of fine cars"?)
The amount of gen x'ers and boomers that cry about age discrimination on here is pathetic. Try getting laid off with kids or large house payments or student loans. I was laid off at 40. Get over yourselves, special sacred snowflakes.
It’s really weird, the pension spike at 30 yos was meant to keep employees. Now the rules changed and it’s a penalty. It is so wrong, if it was linear no one would complain.
If you are over 50 you will be let go soon. If you are working from home, then you are on top of the layoff list. Good luck finding another job. You will come to realize no profitable companies out there will want to hire someone that is 50 or older. It's the fact of life.
One of the reasons why Ford and other companies can get away with dumping 50+ folks is that they can get younger workers from lands afar.
Don’t doubt me.
Lawsuit
In the end the truth comes out. BCG and those hired from BCG will be judged. It can only be covered so long. Their big signing bonuses and retention bonuses at a high level are SEC public information.
Case will never go in front of a Judge or Jury... Ford does not want any of that dirty laundry in the public record.
Age Discrimination at Ford is live and well.
Ford recently promoted many who where younger by passing many who are 55+. Record what is being done through management.
Is there any public information as to how much the 2019 class action employees ended up with? Do we know if they all received the same amount, or if the amounts varied based on years of service and how close they were to retirement?
Back in July of 2019, a pair of former Ford workers filed a lawsuit claiming that they were targeted in a round of white-collar layoffs because of their age and the fact that both were close to receiving a fully vested retirement pension. That lawsuit later grew to include eight employees that were laid off as part of Ford’s downsizing process dubbed “Smart Redesign,” and internal Ford documents seemed to support their claims as the automaker hired Boston Consulting Group and tasked it with identifying employees that would present the most cost savings if their employment was terminated. Now, this Ford age discrimination lawsuit has reportedly been settled.
In 2001 they settled for 10.5 million for the same thing.
I would not sign their agreement, therefore I would refuse their severance. Then I would have my lawyer sue.
Forget class action. Too watered down for that.
@ak+1jrkwwdcs jail*
@Op. We don't know how much money was paid to the wrongful terminated in 2019. If you need the money, and don't want the headache, take the severance and forget about Ford. If money is not an issue, or you want to prove something, go ahead with the lawsuit. Only you can make up your mind.
Is Briana hart and Melissa white and Cody bartel and gerard wholihan and Thomas kopyzynski and Juliana shnack and kulveer virk and Vivek Sarada part of the BCG ALGORITHM?
Save our kids from these predators
@a6+1jrkwwdcs I am advocating for JAIL
No
More company fines
JAIL TIME THESE ARE Crimes I don’t want money I want jail for people responsible
HR will talk themselves into a justifiable position no matter how morally wrong it might be. Hard work or results have little to do with the outcome of staying to pension time.
Who fires HR and Speak up! If it’s top down who signs off on firing? What if reports are falsified and what if there is an alliance made among others? If true then look at the ones that allow real people to be abused and hurt and exploited and threatened and harassed and their reputations destroyed. Those people need to go first. Not age but aggressors and accomplices and those who look away. Performance is subjective. Reports are subjective.
Class action all day everyday. Ford can’t learn from their mistakes Or pivot out of its own way. Too greedy for those that work hard.
You will be judged by how you treated and setup succession when aware at some point you will retire and they will
Hold
The bag
You can’t cry age discrimination that’s only reserved for older and younger people that actually faced age discrimination because the older generation DOES face it. But we must be mindful of who the aggressors and who the victims really are before making such judgement. These rules in the system are in place to protect real victims not THOSE WHO WANT A CASH GRAB the actual victims become ashamed of reporting because of fake reports I said what I said