Do we know the average age of those who were let go? It looks to me that older employees were disproportionately affected. If that's the case, then we're talking about age discrimination, which is not allowed by law. I'd really like to know if anybody else noticed this.
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I have a friend who was terminated. I reviewed the severance agreement. Although the overall makeup of the group stayed about the same, I noticed that the groupings were odd - assistants were in the same "category" as "fellows" (the latter which was a group of 3-4 older employees - and, let's face it, were not going to be terminated). The groups were odd - making it look like UKG manipulated the data to make the focus on older employees less obvious. Additionally in departments where there were multiple employees, there seemed to be a disproportionate number of "older" employees identified for termination.
Pure speculation but here's what I think the criteria were:
- trying to get rid of certain roles (ie qa)
- trying to get rid of high-cost employees (this might not necessarily be highest salary - benefit costs would play in here)
- trying to close/move away from certain offices
I was with the company 2 years and I am 28 and I was laid off.
Over 60 and was impacted
Over 50 here with over 20 plus years at ukg. They laid off the most knowledgeable people hope the ones left behind can manage.
I think they targeted folks with a higher pay scale than others. There are some id--ts on my team who got to stay while I was let go, assuming I made more. I'm 42
There was a guy over 50 on my team who had been with the company for 23 years as of last week.
His manager was also let go.
Everyone on my team let go was over 40
There were all age groups affected. There is no age discrimination.
I was affected. I'm over 50 but had only been at UKG for 2.5 years.
Thats a stretch to call calling older workers fired as discriminatory. If most of the population is older theres a higher chance that mass layoffs will affect older workers. No point in stirring up conspiracy theories
All the people on my team let go were older and with company for 15+ years.
If they were older and had been with the company 10+ or 25+ years, they were probably also high earners for their org. Total comp would be the way to get around age discrimination (if that’s what it was).
Affected oldster here. If your tech career started in the last century, you are vulnerable.
It was most definitely targetted towards older folks. Many people on our team have been with the company for 10+ years, sometimes as much as 25+