What if a certain employee refuses to re-badge to HCL. Is his fate at Xerox sealed? Does refusing present grounds for an immediate layoff? Is it even legal to lay someone off for refusing to work for a third-party company?
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@myy, believe me, we did, Xerox made sure we could not collect!
@zah unemployment laws vary by state. In many states you can collect unemployment when declining a rebadge situation. Contact your unemployment office.
you cannot collect unemployment because you are being offered a comparable job
It was actually stated in the HCL paperwork that if you chose not to sign with HCL, in the 3-day window you were allotted to decide (at the end of March), that would mean that you chose to resign. That employee's last day should have been 4/5, per the documentation that I saw.
From posts here they say refusing to rebadge is resigning. I question whether that holds up in court though. There are similar things that happen all the time, when a company splits for example.
When Xerox and Conduent parted ways, I assume all the people working on the services side the business were rebadged, but that felt different since you weren't going to an Indian outsourcing company. Of course, many of those people have since lost their jobs.
If you don’t rebadge they will let you go and you get nothing. Not even unemployment.
It’s all very calculated.
Take the rebadge and look for another job, now!