WVNN6 Wrote:
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> Oct 5, 2018 Wrote:
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> > Oct 5, 2018
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> Also from article
> "Verizon confirmed that it offered a *voluntary*
> severance package (VSP) to about 44,000
> employees"
>
> so these layoffs do not happen overnight, more
> like weeks and months, especially with this large
> number. Also there is a 60-day notice with the
> large plant closure law:
>
>
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/termination/plan
> tclosings
> Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
> (WARN) (29 USC 2100 et. seq.) - Protects workers,
> their families and communities by requiring most
> employers with 100 or more employees to provide
> notification 60 calendar days in advance of plant
> closings and mass layoffs.
>
> Since Verizon like other large companies want to
> avoid pay8ng workers 60 days pay without giving
> this notice for a *mandatory* layoff, its why the
> voluntary package was offered first. Remembering
> Worldcom in June, 2002 laid off 1/3 of its
> workforce in one day, and had to pay out due to
> this law as knew people who received such payment.
> So best case, the first workers were laid off
> around December. Shutdown of larger facilities
> take longer which puts this into 2019, as
> sometimes there are leased facilities with
> landlords, and other circumstances.
Verizon layoffs continually done in small batches to avoid federal plant closure law. See continuing layoffs at
https://www.thelayoff.com/verizon-communications
https://www.thelayoff.com/verizon-wireless?sort=active
As more layoffs happen each month in batches of dozens (under 100), employees and their families suffer and customer service? and technical support? gets more interesting as Usa jobs posted above. How can you support your customers with only 70% of the workforce you had before? Automation may take some care of some questions and issues, but not everything. Last couple of times recently called into Verizon Wireless support with a question could not find answer online, was invited to a digital chat (yeah, right, with slow typing on a smartphone on screen keyboard).