Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

Is this another new legal action?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/investor-alert-law-offices-howard-150000009.html

The allegation:


The complaint filed in this class action alleges that throughout the Class Period, Defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements, as well as failed to disclose material adverse facts about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that the planned “workforce optimization” plan involved implementing arbitrary quotas; (2) that the plan would cut thousands of jobs at the Company; (3) that jobs that were particularly at risk of being cut were held by longer-tenured, knowledgeable, and highly compensated senior personnel; (4) that these job terminations were selectively timed to artificially inflate reported earnings and other financial metrics; (5) that, at the time of the Merger, defendant Lawrie had forecasted plans for a $2.7 billion workforce reduction in the first year; (6) that, as a result of these workforce terminations, the Company was unlikely to deliver on client contracts; (7) that, as a result of the foregoing, the Company’s clients would be dissatisfied and the relationships would be impaired; and (8) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants’ positive statements about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects, were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.


I mean, WE ALL KNOW THIS IS TRUE but...

Like so many others of these bottom feeding class actions though, its unlikely to go anywhere.

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@1150zQho-yuu I'd have to go back and read the initial investor day document again, but I seem to remember it was ~$3bn of "cost takeout" in 3 years but that was made up of more than just staff reductions... and was over 3 years, not $2.7bn in the first year.

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What would you say should be the highest auto-bid that one should set for purchasing the DXC carcass on eBay? If the share price falls into the twenties then I’d want something extra thrown in to sweeten the deal? A couple of DVD box sets at least.

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There’s loads of them....that the defendant failed to disclose to investors that’s the plans would result in thousands of jobs being cut. (Well that WAS disclosed in nearly every investor PowerPoint about how the cost savings would be made by workforce optimisation and reducing real estate and the investors loved it back then). This is just alleging quotas were made, highly skilled people were targeted, clients were affected and reductions timed to boost earnings, All very difficult to prove unless the plaintiff has email evidence from the prince of darkness himself to attest to this as material evidence.

It’s now about what’s right or wrong, it’s what can be proven.

He has walked free and with a great deal of money whilst thousands of employees bore the brunt of his mis-management. Now because the shareholders have lost money we’re all now supposed to feel sorry for them. Boo-Hoo!

The board decided to accelerate Lawrie’s retirement plans (exit) after his monumental faux pas when he sacked Karen Puri in October 2019 and the board suffered its biggest drop in share price to date. Such an unpredictable set of actions without the board’s knowledge had an impact on the share price which did not serve the interest of the investors to whom the board were accountable. So he had to go.

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