Regardless of what you are asked to sign, I’m sure laid off employees could sue if there is good cause. It seems that the war on working from home disproportionally affects female working mothers. The people being let go also seem to be older (and female). Time to chat about this to any lawyer friends you may have, and certainly appropriate to complain to state and federal equal employment opportunity organizations. What I’ve seen looks really bad i.e. discriminatory!
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No doubt age factored in to this. Associates all of a sudden went from good solid workers to BE in a 3 month timeframe. No logic could be used to justify this when a 20 year associate for the first time is BE.
How soon privileges turn into entitlements.
Once you've signed to take the SUB package deal, you have absolutely no recourse legally. If in doubt, talk with a lawyer to review the language in the SUB package BEFORE signing. It will cost you approximately $200 for the lawyer to review and provide general advice.
The decision not to sign will likely be decided by you and the lawyer based on these questions
- Have you been targeted for layoff by being given a below expectations when you were never rated below in prior years. 2. Can you prove this by having printouts of your prior year performance reviews. 3. Do you have any records, such as emails, showing management giving unfair advantage to their friends? One ex. Manager warning you about arriving late while you see their friend showing up late consistently. If in court, your lawyer can supbeona time records using the time in/out via badge swipes for all employees on a team to show the manager did not apply corrective action or decision making across the board and that expectation was undefined within the team.
I see the pattern with the more years of service and the forced ranking of employees against each other instead of the job. Good way to pit the ones left behind against each other and hide mistakes instead of pulling together for a better service for the clients.