IF Windstream is hiring while laying off they are in violation of Federal mandated law. This has nothing to do with the union or being unionized or not. If anyone has evidence that Windstream is doing this l encourage them to call the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) There are multiple offices in every state. They will come into Windstream and pull records, they will conduct a full investigation...fine Windstream heavily and halt hiring. Also l am hearing of age and race discrimination....this is harder to prove but also violation of Federal Law...Call EEOC....call people..tell what you know!!....please.
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All CAF got cancelled about 6 months ago because they ran out of funds. They did upgrade portions of the network, but had problems delivering the speeds they’d promised. There were lots of problems with the contractors chosen to deliver the work packages causin increased overtime internal and external. I think overall they weren’t getting the return necessary to justify the expenses they were incurring.
What's worse, is they aren't even entertaining the idea of letting those let go, be considered for any of the open postions. They are hiring people off the street with 0 experience, and not even interviewing employees affected by the layoffs, with years of experience. Or, people wanting to transfer from one region to another, within the same job title.....nope, they'll go with the green bean every time. They have hired more people in the last 3-5 yrs that are family (son's, nephews, cousins, etc....), or friend of a friend, than letting one person transfer within job title.....because managers can "train" the new guys how they want them to be trained and not have to listen to the "well, that's not how we did it in my old area"
last fall they laid off people in tulsa then moved the dept to another location. that new location needed to hire more people to help out the current employees with the work load.
They aren’t hiring same positions. They are eliminating complete departments and hiring in others. It’s a shift in focus. Here is the only thing you need to know. If you make good pay and are skilled and customer appreciate you, your days are numbered. If you kiss a$$ and basically s--- up to management, you have staying power
CAF1R2?
They have hired about 4 or 5 in my group over past few months. The most recent being 1 week before the jan 18th layoff. They then laid 5 from our group. 2 of which were with company over 15 years.
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-qa/pages/amountoftimetbeforewecanhire.aspx
CAF was supposed to continue until 2020.
Windstream keeps dodging the bullets...what about CAF? Government paid to have sites deployed, were those sights turned up and running?
What law specifically? The company has older people and charity cases holding on from Alltel glory days but never updating their skills, laying them off is unavoidable. Cite which laws you are referring to or GTFO.