This is (still) the HPE Way.
From Glassdoor.
"August of 2014 a Rehire Restriction Policy was put into place that stated any employee who exits the company through any of our "paid" programs such as Phased Retirement, Enhanced Early Retirement, Workforce Reduction (WFR) and similar, are not eligible to be rehired in any capacity (regular employee, Contingent Worker, temporary worker, etc)."
Advice to Management
Don't limit your talent by making ridiculous policies. Talk about insult to injury, you guy's can't manage your money so you lay-off part of your workforce and tell all of them you can never work for us again.