Thursday, October 18, 2012
Major victory for plaintiffs in age-discrimination lawsuit against Bechtel led Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
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LLNS is going to be nailed to the wall by a jury once this trial is over.
Not that they don't deserve it. They handled the RIF in a very crude, ruthless and biased manner. Too bad that Bechtel won't have to pay a dime of the reward, though. It won't even take a single bite out of their annual lab management profit fees.
What shocks me is that this has not landed into the media ? This is a landmark case. Age discrimination is on the rise and if they win, it could change the ways people treat layoffs. It is interesting that they are not settling. RIFs are ruthless, everywhere. Your employer does not have to care about you, but it is a sign of the type of employer they are. Your choice is not to work for them.
It is true, this could be a precedent setting case. If the plaintiff's age discrimination claim has stood up through the court system this far, I can assure you it has some merit. I imagine the media will pick up on this case as it draws closer to trial.
With 1800 fired, there are of course plenty of older victims, but from my recollection, the average age of victims was about the same as the lab's population.
The important folly is rather that the NNSA deliberately changed the lab's management contract knowing in advance that no new funds would arrive and therefore the $200M of well-documented yearly cost increases would need to come from firing employees.
Those F****rs; Brooks, Pryzbylek and Bodman knew that thousands needed to be fired to give NNSA ...."a little more management control".
I vote for justice. It is time for a impromptu lab historian to collect the facts, the stories and the pain, to publish the ongoing disaster.
Here are some facts:
- The lab appointed a "transition committee" one year prior to contract transition. The committee assured us that the new management would not have any significant changes that would adversely impact employees.
- Approximately 3 weeks prior to transition, GM held an all hands meeting telling all lab employees that "transition will be transparent"
- Approximately 2 weeks after transition, GM held an all hands meeting announcing major layoffs. GM stated a transition charge of 180M combined with an accounting error of 100M resulting in a 280M shortfall.
- The accounting error was never disclosed.
- The "transition committee" was never heard from again.
- During the arduous process, medical reported being "flooded" with people thinking that they were having coronary events due to stress and anxiety over the process.
These guys through the equivalent of a "bean ball" to some two thousand people that never knew they were standing at the plate!
"I vote for justice"
Me To!!!!!!!
During the arduous process, medical reported being "flooded" with people thinking that they were having coronary events...
October 28, 2012 9:32 AM
Just who the hell is "medical"???? Did people report to a laboratory entity if they thought they were having a heart attack? Or did they immediately call 911 in which case the lab would never know about it?
This sounds like a fact-free demagogue statement. How about some supporting facts from "medical"??
Jerk!
Medical is at the laboratory . . . a place where you obviously do not work . . Dork! . . . at least at the time of transition. If you did, then you would know that ES&H held an all hands specifically in attempt to lower peoples stress due to impeding layoffs. . . Whom are you!
Your thoughts on "transition committee"...
Your thoughts on GM: "transition will be transparent" . . .
Corporate jerk . . .
Whom are you!
October 28, 2012 10:08 PM
Yep, that says it all. Do you know the difference between "who" and "whom"? Guess you didn't learn grammar in "Grammar School". Too bad you will always be a loser, economically, intellectually, and socially.
Troll!
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