As a recently laid off employee, I wholeheartedly agree with your concept of outlawing layoffs. If a company can trully afford to keep you employed, then they must do so!
I did nothing wrong and was an exceptionally good employee and knew, did my job well. However, the new "boss" didn't quite see how my black, middle age female self fit into his vision of how the department should evolve. Whenever, we would somehow run into each other in the halls, I would greet him in a friendly manner and he would curtly respond back making no eye contact. Of course this coldness bothered me, so I stayed on my Ps and Qs. I know beyond a shawdow of a doubt that my layoff was racially motivated. However, in order for me to receive my severance pay, I was required to sign a letter stating that I would not take any legal actions against the company. I checked with EEOC and discovered that it is perfectly legal for an employer to do. So, being in the desperate, powerless and non negotiable position that I was in, I signed the letter.
If it was illegal to layoff employees, of course this would never happen to me or anybody. The impact of loss employmeent on people and their family as a result of layoff is so devastating..that it should really be criminal!
Average, day-to-day workers have become nothing but expendable slaves which employers dispense with at a great loss to the worker; many employers are power-hungry, money-motivated crazies who should, but often don't, get their just-deserts. I am willing to band together and form a support group for us powerless people. Contact dissenterdisinter@yahoo.com.
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I did nothing wrong and was an exceptionally good employee and knew, did my job well. However, the new "boss" didn't quite see how my black, middle age female self fit into his vision of how the department should evolve. Whenever, we would somehow run into each other in the halls, I would greet him in a friendly manner and he would curtly respond back making no eye contact. Of course this coldness bothered me, so I stayed on my Ps and Qs. I know beyond a shawdow of a doubt that my layoff was racially motivated. However, in order for me to receive my severance pay, I was required to sign a letter stating that I would not take any legal actions against the company. I checked with EEOC and discovered that it is perfectly legal for an employer to do. So, being in the desperate, powerless and non negotiable position that I was in, I signed the letter.
If it was illegal to layoff employees, of course this would never happen to me or anybody. The impact of loss employmeent on people and their family as a result of layoff is so devastating..that it should really be criminal!
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