LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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Congratulations 5 first laid off employees. Good fight.
Is laying people off illegally = abuse of power ?
Please investigate.
The jury should reward damages of some multiple of 2.7M for the five plaintiffs and this will become the basis for a settlement for the remaining 125 and others wronged who now come forward.
Appeals will occur as the LLC is desperate. NNSA will not cover this management error, and the LLC lacks the equity to cover the expected settlement.
Tyler Przybylek's bright idea of privatization, badly executed, is likely to have bankrupt one of the nation's former "Crown Jewels" in under 5 years.
Nice work Tyler, Bodman and other DOE and NNSA Private Equity wannabees.
May 12, 2013 at 8:12 AM
How? By NNSA telling LLNS, "your on your own buddy"!
Actually, NNSA is hanging out on a limb too since they approved the damn thing. What a bunch of D-students!
However, if you worked at any of the NNSA "for-profit" managed labs you already knew that.
However, if you worked at any of the NNSA "for-profit" managed labs you already knew that.
May 12, 2013 at 2:32 PM
So does LANS. Unfortunately, no one at LANL has the balls to takes these bastards on.
125 more plantiffs are signed up, and more will join the gravy train now that the wrongdoing has been decided and valued.
Read the verdict. This was a bad day for the plaintiffs and especially their lawyer. He probably sunk in $15 million on this and might get someday 40% of 2.7 million. No age discrimination finding or any illegality.
May 12, 2013 at 8:20 PM
That's not what was said in the newspaper article. Can you post a link to whatever you're reading?
May 14, 2013 at 7:54 AM
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God willing. The lab is full of people who needed to retire years ago. The lab can't bring in any young talent because the "old farts" can't get off the gravy train. Get off EBA and do real science, or GTFO.
May 14, 2013 at 9:07 AM
That's what the Muslim extremists say before they pronounce death upon the infidels (us). Be careful whose will you invoke in your tirade to get rid of the "old farts." The people who, you can't wait to supplant can and will run rings around you and your arrogant ignorance. Grow up.