Furlough was to be 16 weeks in length (max). There was no notice of any extension. That puts the furlough end date at Sept 6th(Sunday) or 7th(Monday), however Monday was a holiday. Labor Day (how ironic?) So first day back should have been Sept 8th, if you were kept out the entire 16 weeks. However, a lot of people notified about their job being eliminated or being laid off had an effective date of September 18th. Which means the time period between Sept 8th-18th should have been brought back to work for those 2 weeks and paid, if the furlough was not extended. To my knowledge people were not brought back in that time period, so may have a case there to go after them for some questionable tactics. Unless of course you signed your agreement, which would eliminate any ability to sue them. Make no mistake, they are as shady as it gets, they knew exactly what they were doing. Since this was all supposed to happen in Q1-Q2 anyway, the transition pay is your pay you would have gotten anyway, so they took advantage of the pandemic, delayed their planned restructure but had excuse to not pay those people for 16 weeks. Merit increases were delayed until April, odd? Thats about the time the whole restructure would have happened with out covid. These people are lowest of the low and they'll all get what's coming to them eventually. Be glad your away from this sh–show.