During multiple Townhall meetings earlier this year. Employees have asked executives if FOW meant Future Layoffs, each time the executive including Cordani would use buzz words and side step the question and explain to us how this is all "to better serve our customers". Many of us Employees saw through this ruse and called FOW out for what it really was, a precursor to layoffs. Today we were proven right. Meanwhile townhalls with Chris DeRosa, Cordani, and other leaders would all sidestep the layoff question or flat out ignored it. This is how to lose respect and trust among your employees. I will never see them the same ever again, especially Cordani. He sure likes to boasts how much revenue we make to our shareholders.
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"Employees, their representatives and units of local government may initiate civil actions against employers believed to be in violation of the WARN Act. The Department of Labor has no legal standing in any enforcement action and, therefore, will not be in a position to issue advisory opinions of specific cases. "
So what we should all be doing is submitting notifications to each of our respective state department of labor that Cigna is laying off employees and failing to adhere to WARN act.
A drawn-out layoff process can devastate the morale and productivity of a company's remaining employees. The core problem is the the feeling of impending doom hanging over one's head. How are you supposed to act and feel if, on any day, you might be laid off?
The U.S. federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act (WARN) states that employers with 100 or more employees must provide at least 60 days advance notice before a mass layoff affecting 50 or more employees to a specific location/office. Cigna executives are so devious that they are circumventing this warning. Since many Cigna employees are spread out throughout the country, they are staggering layoffs so they don't have to submit to WARN. Either way we should ALL contact the US department of Labor and let them know what Cigna is doing.
BIG THANK YOU to the person who did warn us on this site about 10/12, and future (11/09, February - May) keep the information and updates flowing. Now that Cigna Management knows that we know, don't be surprised if they accelerate, change, or adjust the layoff schedule. We all know more layoffs are coming and keep everyone informed. The fact that Cigna Executives have no transparency and we have to resort to finding out on a site like this shows all of us their true colors. I will never see Cordani the same again.
I don't think we ever get a straight answer from leadership. Those town hall meetings are a consistent attempt to gaslight the masses. Oh sure, you walk away with hope in the immediate aftermath. However, in the next departmental meeting you get the 'do more with less' and operational expense reduction speech. More important to lay people off and save those salary dollars for the executive leadership bonuses. I would hate for the CEO to have to give up a couple million.
We at Elevance Health are going through the same thing. You are in our prayers.
To the people who were laid off, please know it has NOTHING to do with performance. You are simply a number to the decision makers. They took into account age, position, salary, years served etc.
Just know that you could have worked your butt off even harder and STILL got laid off. It’s hard not to take it personally bc it is personal to you. But to them, it isn’t.
The FOW talking points were vague and used as an attempt to push people to quit. Think about it. If someone quits there's no severance payout. The more people that get fed up with driving into an office and wasting hours in traffic the fewer people they have to lay off with a payout. I told all of my co-workers this was coming back in the summer.
Now, if you're still employed you should start thinking about how the AI team can create an automation to replace you.
Go to the Artificial Intelligence intranet page and you'll find projects have been underway for roles such as complex claim payment. Don't think for a second that AI can't do what you do or you're in for another rude awakening within 12-18 mos.
I think it's unethical if I worked hard to single handily created a new process that increases efficiency and benefits Cigna, to then be asked to create a meticulous P&P that describes everything I created in detail, so they can eliminate my job and pass my knowledge along to someone else to do. I see no harm if I provide a general outline of my process but leave my "secret sauce" that I created out of it.
Think the comment is unethical about changing policy procedures in job aids. That’s very low. Take the high road.
All bets are off with Cigna. Remaining employee should think about their own exit strategy. Apply for other jobs, if you happen to be in a role that is dependent on you to function/operate, make your policy and procedures or job aids purposely vague so that without you, business can't function as well. If you know of unethical business practices (which I know of a handful), get proof and hold on to it (just in case).
Cigna executives proved to look out for their bottom line, it's time we employees do the same. Cigna work culture has gone downhill and this will only get worse.
It’s all about the shareholders and increasing shareholder wealth.
I am one of the job eliminations today. More than 12 years. Always superior performance. Never, ever saw this coming.
Executives making boatloads of money have no issue ruining the lives of the people who made them that money.
There is no loyalty anymore. I know someone who was here for 12 years and was laid off today.
It’s disgusting. They have no issue lying, though. It’s not their families now struggling to put food on the table. It’s not their careers. They exist to hop from company to company, collect bonuses, and ruin lives.
Anything for the bottom line. Guess we can’t expect much else from a health insurance company.