The quote states "In the merger, 120,000 or so HP employees are set to be "spun off" into a newly created HP-CSC merger company called "DXC Technology," with their prior HP sponsored health plan replaced by a "private exchange model" adopted for its "lower cost structure" for HP." Oh boy do those employees of DXC face an unfair medical plan cheapened by a private exchange model. The precondition of employees with severe illnesses will be tested in the courts. GLTA.
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MzxMAFK-1tjq
Sad. you realise that you are overpaid for your skills and region. Why are you complaining?
Another inflated legacy EDS?
The family rate for health insurance is Horrid. Make sure you check the plan to see if your doctors are in the network.
TUPE applies to your contract of employment, excluding pensions, for a maximum 2 years. Also, your redundancy package is not an employment right, it is a policy. It can be, and constantly, has been varied by EDS and HPE.
Sleep well...........
I am staying because I could not find a better-paying job and benefits. Every other job effectively entailed thousands in cuts for me.
I could be laid-off tomorrow, yet the fact remains that this job is likely the best paying job I have ever had.
Thankfully I will be unaffected as a HPE employee moving to Dixie, as the legal framework of TUPE makes it illegal to change an employees T&Cs as a result of company take-over
@MzxMAFK-rmw - maybe you should get educated on what is going on. First off, criticizing the POTUS isn't unpatriotic - just as blindly accepting what they are peddling isn't patriotic - what you propose is nationalistic fetishism. FYI: I served this country in the military and was honorably discharged.
I worked hard (and loyally) for every employer I've had over the last 35 years. As for this situation, what the government is doing is exactly applicable - rule changes are allowing HPE/DXC to bend their employees (I still have lots of friends working there). Pre-existing conditions? Under the ACA Insurance can't deny them. It may not have been a perfect plan, but... believe it or not, most of the ACVA was written by the House Republicans and modeled after Mitt Romney's health care plan from Massachusetts. The plan proposed recently to replace it, the AHCA, basically took away tons of benefits, increased premiums for everybody over the age of 25, and was projected to leave more Americans without health care within a few years than where without it BEFORE the ACA.
If you are looking for blame in premiums and costs, look to the healthcare industry, which is playing the same greedy game as Meg and her board does - they extract all the profit they can for the stockholders... and one of the things Trump promised was to get those under control; he's already given up on that, instead offering big pharma tax breaks and less regs (do you honestly think that will help lower costs??)
All of this is compounded by the greed from Meg and her minions. Inventory doesn't need decent health care, and families don't matter. Nobody here will change their course.
The only way you can change this is to find work elsewhere. I'm here, as are others, to remind you all that there are better employers out there. People - good, skilled, experienced people - are staying with DXC out of momentum, out of a fear of change, out of a desire for stability, but they don't seem to realize the company they work for isn't going to get better. All the loyalty they pour into HPE/DXC is for naught, because the company will never return it. Inventory is all they think you are.
Meanwhile, my own company has open recs for developers and other IT people. Our HR has reached out to HPE employees (I was one of them), but those who remain with HPE/DXC are facing more degradation and further erosion in their pay and benefits. The longer my friends wait, the tougher it will be to recover when the other shoe drops at DXC.
I don't see how they can make anyone change health plans until October (or whenever enrollment time comes back around). By then, a lot of folks will have a better idea of what their future holds.
Lets look at insurance companies profits are they really down, don't think so. Are the CEO's taking cuts in pay because ACA is costing the companies too much money. NO....
Lets keep RUMP out of this. this a portal to talk about layoff's not political crap.
I don't see the CEO's . Board of directors and VP's taking cuts in pay or forgoing a bonus that would say 100's if not 1,000's of jobs.
To @MzxMAFK-hmz:
The thread actually started out taking about how employees who will transition to DXC will end up with a Medical Benefit Downgrade. Another poster said – it already happened and the benefits are bad. Someone else posted the article around the gentleman with ALS whose wife works at HPE.
This has nothing to do with the current president and this is not the result of the current president of our great nation. The blame, with regard to this thread should be going to greedy corporate America (i.e., HPE in this case) and the fact that the ACA did not have the right level of regulations against INSURANCE COMPANIES to prevent a man dying from ALS from being denied medically necessary, life sustaining care. READ THE ARTICLE that the poster prior to you attached! http://finance.yahoo.com/news/family-fights-stop-hewlett-packard-001800947.html
Three things I feel compelled to point out; Silicon Valley (HPE and many other companies) thinking nothing of their employees, the skyrocketing costs of health insurance premiums under the ACA, and the health insurance companies since the ACA abusing healthcare premiums costs for all because THEY CAN. This is the combination of greedy corporate America and no ACA regulations on big business and health insurance companies that insure that someone continues to receive life sustaining care. Newsflash - the current president is not responsible for this and given the gravity of a the situation that we have an HPE colleague whose husband has ALS and was denied his life sustaining care is the ISSUE!
If you are not a current employee, do not get on this site to spew hate against any president (i.e., be an American and support our democracy). There are people being impacted by what companies like HP, HPE, and the coming soon DXC are doing to their America workers. THAT’S WHAT THIS IS ABOUT!
The aeon plans are not too bad, actually.
Quote is right here. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/family-fights-stop-hewlett-packard-001800947.html
I'm so glad I dodged that bullet by leaving HPE on my own terms last fall. My current coverage is actually a bit better than the HPE coverage was (like my pay and the recent raise and bonus I got).
At least you always have the ACA... oh wait, that's right, my fellow Americans gambled on Trump; whatever plan they eventually shove down America's throat will probably not be much better than the AHCA. Hey, you can always forgo the whole insurance thing now, at least.
You will never go wrong finding en employer who cares about their employees. They do exist out there. I wish I could convince more of my old colleagues that they would be better off getting away from HPE->DXC.
Where did this quote come from?
Liked your former plan?
You'll LOVE this one for 3 times the cost!