I assume US law requires no severance package at all. Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Tony Thigpen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 22/10/2015 18:50 Subject: Re: Fwd: Bank’s severance deal indebts laid off IT workers to be ‘on call’ for 2 years of tech support — without pay Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> I wonder how much $$ the severance package provides. That could be considered a 'Retainer' for 2 years. So, they are not providing the support 'without pay'. And, if an employee decides to quit talking to the bank after 10 or 20 hours, what can the bank do? Any judge would consider that the ex-employee was working in "good faith" and that the bank was not. Tony Thigpen Paul Gilmartin wrote on 10/22/2015 01:31 PM: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:14:15 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: >>> >>> http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/banks-severance-deal-indebts-laid- >>> off-it-workers-to-be-on-call-for-2-years-of-tech-support-without-pay/ >>> > Y'know, sometimes you have really bad broken URLs. Repaired (I think): > http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/banks-severance-deal-indebts-laid-off-it-workers-to-be-on-call-for-2-years-of-tech-support-without-pay/ >>> > But the article describes only the quid, not the quo of the quid-pro-quo. > If the employees dislike the offer, they're free to leave with no severance > compensation. Not that they're likely to relish the prospect. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
