Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

QCOM hiding true number of layoffs by encouraging people to voluntarily quit?

Just heard from a friend at QCOM who says that they are offering some people a choice of two options:

  1. Take a package and leave the company. Since this is voluntary, it would count as a voluntary quit, not a layoff.

  2. Perform a task for a period of time (say a month) and get reviewed. If your score is under a certain threshold, then you get terminated with cause.

If this is really happening, it means that management is sleazy and is trying to do several things. One, to hide the true number of layoffs by encouraging people to voluntarily quit. Two, to avoid paying higher taxes to the California EDD by making people who do leave ineligible for unemployment insurance. They're trying to do it by making people fear being terminated with cause, because as everyone knows, the rating system is a sham. If the company wants you to get a poor score, there's little oversight and no legal protection even if you did an exemplary job. And they seem to be betting that few people will take option 3, which is to get terminated with cause and sue the bastards for wrongful termination (I'm guessing that they'd probably offer you a package at that point).

Can anyone confirm that this is true?

by Anonymous65545
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A friend of mine was affected by this. No problems @ Q for 10 years, then suddenly, placed on PiP a "soft layoff" to skirt employment laws. Why not? They already skirt the tax laws, and do some other horrible things ... I'll decline to mention them.

by Anonymous71571
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In order to collect your severance you must sign s covenant not to sue. This waives almost all right to sue for wrongful termination. As far as PIPs I have seen them work when the manager truly thinks the employee has the capability to turn it around. The employees are also offers positions in another group or dept if it's a better fit and they can suceed. In our felt this happened several times. Of course that was prior to the stack ranking iniatives designed to cut the chaff. Very few if any terminated employees have won a lawsuit for wrongful termination at QC.

by Anonymous71409
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65545 et al: A really good attorney could potentially make this next round of layoffs more expensive for Qualcomm than the China debacle.

by Anonymous67941
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Yes, this is happening. Some people I know are affected.

by Anonymous65832
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Poppycock

by Anonymous65761
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the whole PIP process is a joke. If a supervisor has it in for an employee, they can make sure that the employee is seen as "failing" and then terminate them with cause. At that point, it becomes very hard to win a lawsuit for wrongful termination.

by Anonymous65731
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<< If this is really happening, it means that management is sleazy ... >>

Yes, it is and yes, it does.

by Anonymous65665
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Chinese regulators are more clever than QC lawyers. ha ha

by Anonymous65632
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Just watch the number of cars in the parking lot go down.

by Anonymous65627
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Yes, taking a package does not get counted as layoffs. Termination is not counted. And, ending contract workers are not counted. There are easily a couple of thousand not counted. QC lawyers are very clever. By announcing layoffs, it defuses rumor and gossip about people getting let go. We might just assume that they are part of the 300 layoffs in US. Maybe we should start a head count of numbers being let go.

by Anonymous65560
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