Attention:
LAPIS View Paycheck will be unavailable from Sat., Dec. 29 through Mon., Jan. 21. Only LAPIS will be affected by the planned outage - statements of direct deposit will continue to be mailed out. Employees will be able to resume using LAPIS View Paycheck on Tue., Jan. 22. The purpose of the LAPIS outage is to ensure confidentiality is maintained for releasing flex-term employees early. Thank you for your understanding during this outage.
Why would LLNS want to hide this information from the employees?
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If you read the entire message it says:
"The purpose of the LAPIS outage is to ensure confidentiality is maintained for releasing flex-term employees early."
In other words, if you are a Flex Term employee scheduled to be laid off other than at the end of a normal pay period (i.e., early), you'd know right away when you logged on that you were on the chopping block - you'd see your "Final Paycheck". Everyone would be logging on periodically to see what their individual employment status was. It'd be a dead giveaway. That's why they need to limit access.
I think (my opinion only, I have no insight) they are getting the final paychecks ready for folks they are cutting. If they are doing this, then those who affected may find out via Lapis before being told in person. Thus, if you can't see your paycheck you won't know until the shot is made
If I was a term employee I'd want to see my next paycheck from LLNS so I knew if I was on the hit list for Monday. Why is it that LLNS doesn't want you to know?
Targeted people should know well in advance so they have time to plan for the transition. It may take days or weeks to find employment but it may take months to get into a career!
Secrecy around layoffs has always been standard practice in the corporate world!
It'd be a dead giveaway.- ( a good thing )
If they are doing this, then those who affected may find out via Lapis before being told in person. Thus, if you can't see your paycheck you won't know until the shot is made -( a good thing )
Secrecy around layoffs has always been standard practice in the corporate world!- ( idiotic )
Why not let people know however they find out. These tactics just tells everyone how LLNS operates and how they can't be trusted for any reason.
"Secrecy around layoffs has always been standard practice in the corporate world!"
Wrong. When an announcement is made in most industries, they tell exactly how many they are planning to get rid of, and what criteria they will be using. Canceling all raises and then Carpet-bombing 2000+ employees with layoff notices just to get rid of 500 is not a normal layoff practice in industry. It is a terror tactic.
Heres a real layoff strategy by comparison. If you need to get rid of 500 people, order them by seniority, then immediately send the 60 day notices to those affected. The rest of the workforce can then get back to work.
Hello January 3, 2008 11:09 PM!
They did say it was going to be 500 people. Sending out notices to 2000 people is a WARN act requirement! blame your government, not an LLNS terror tactic. They are just going with the flow!
When you vote next time, be sure to vote out the incumbent!
I agree that only those affected should be notified and notified early!
"Not an LLNS terror tactic"???
BS, LLNS has total control of how they manage the lab and to date I haven't seen a thing these overpaid clowns are doing that is any good for the employees.
I've got 17 pages17 pages of RIF notices I want to hand out and a lot more congress / senate bozo's on the hit list for this year.
I too am ashamed of the way that those who committed to the labs mission are being dismissed.
An employee should be given the longest possible notice to minimize the damage that NNSA/Laboratory mismanagment did to the lives of the talented that will be fired.
To do anything else shows the Lab to be a poor employer of all of it's employees.
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