Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

hardworker - I am from Belgium and have been in many reorganisations before.

the fact that you are married or have children is not taken under considerations.

it is just a mathematical exercise - we need to reduce so much % in these area's of the organization.

and then it is up to the manager to make suggestions who should go.

I don;t know who told you this - but it is not true in Europe. Maried life, kids, ... is private live. Not professional life. Many people are getting fired that are married.

the only consideration now in DXC is the focus on people from +45 - and this is illegal in Belgium as you are not allowed to discriminate on race, gender or age.

This company have no care for its people. I escaped last March from a UK Site. Nine months later and my job is being advertised for a salary of 6k less per year.

Get out while you can, my time is put to much better use these days.

anyone from belgium or germany willing to confirm or disagree with this view.

regardless of performance a married employee or an employee with children is less likely to be made redundant than a singke petson due to works councils

A number of my colleagues that have remained at DXC are 45+ years of age yet they are expensive to get rid of especially with their years of tenure and experience. The targetted employees are more likely to be the ones that have pissed off lower level (useless) management.

Any suggestion of WFR'ing married employees or those with children is discrimination - total bollocks in my view. That would not stand up in court of law.

If ML wants to WFR all 45+ people then he would be in the firing line too.

@dhx

That is one of the most retarded things I’ve read on this forum.

How does having a family and being middle aged make you less skilled than a young person?

If anything the life experiences and the work experience make you a more rounded person.

How many fresher DBA’s do you know who can perform the role better than someone with 20 years experience?

@hardworker,

I think you are not paying attention here or inventing things yourself? Is there anywhere mentioned "married" of "having children" in this topic? In EU this is not an item that is considered. And how do you make the connection that people that are being married of have children are less skilled and less working hard. I think you listened to much to Mikey who thinks that all employees above a certain age are "less flexible and less skilled". I think he might be in for a bumpy ride when he fires all +45 people.

why should someone who is married.. and or has children keep job over a single person who is better skilled and works harder....

Just shows what a farce EU is

This has been happening to us in South Region (Europe) for years since Mike Lawrie took over. Now as DXC but before as CSC headcount is cut by sacking colleagues on disciplinary to avoid paying the compensation we are entitled to. Staff then have to take legal action against the company to get anything but it still works out cheaper for Lawrie in most cases.

@RlK688k-ufv In the UK there's little to stop mass redundancies - the government has to informed when a company wishes to make more than 20 people redundant but they don't 'approve' the redundancies. There are rules around consulting employees over redundancies but as an employee rep said to me 'its consultation, not negotiation'.

Truth is DXC is untouchable and they know it.

Our governments are corrupt and frankly skint. Before DXC make cuts they have some legal hurdles to jump over, those involve your government trade department.

In the UK our union rep managed to get this discussed in an official government capacity. A grand total of one secretary turned up who didn’t have a clue and 2-3 MP’s. Point is the cuts can happen once approved by someone in the government (when a certain number of heads will be chopped).

You Americans are crazy, I would mobilise a movement and all tweet Donald Trump about Mike Lawrie... if he suddenly get 20-50k tweets about Lawrie I can bet you he will fire something out.

Such a shame too. Belgium was so much fun in the old days. We got so much done too

Indeed - the focus is on all employees above 45 - in the meantime there are plans to hire young graduates.

DXC treats their employees like cattle .

Have heard they are going for anyone over the age of 45 too. Which sounds very very illegal