Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Be very careful putting a sense of job security into the words coming from the NNSA labs' management.
March 7, 2013 at 7:50 AM
Only if the lawyers can claim the WARN Act doesn't apply. One big loophole is that the Act does not apply if fewer than 500 employees are laid off and that number is less than 1/3 of the total workforce at a site. This exists because the Act was intended to apply only to "plant closings and mass layoffs."