LLNL Wins Age Discrimination Lawsuit!!
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has won the age discrimination phase of a lawsuit alleging that 130 Laboratory employees were laid off improperly in 2008.
In a verdict rendered last week in Alameda County Superior Court, a jury found that Laboratory managers had acted in good faith and followed their own policies and the law with regard to the ages of the laid off employees
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The Independent 12/20/2013
One need not be "worthless" or have "dated" skills to be placed on the EIT or EBA lists. You just need to be blacklisted by one or more LLNS managers. As a blacklisted EIT or EBA, your weekly submitted job inquiries can serve as a roadmap to ensure you stay blacklisted with prospective managers until your "reasonable period" to find an assignment runs out.
Problem is, us expendables are still expected to continue meeting all deliverables and milestones on time and with no schedule changes. Fewer workers - same work load – no pay increases. They tell us to work safe and deliberate, but you’d better not miss a deadline. On top of that, they took away Stores, Motor Pool, and many shop services that were vital support. These people do not care about LLNL or what is best for this nation’s security. Sometimes saving a few dollars is NOT the best course of action! But you can’t tell them that. They are smarter than you. IMO, this type of person lives in Potterville, counting their money and spinning their webs.
Brent Knapp, new acting Director, should get HR to develop a very precise definition for "manager" and ask all ADs at LLNL to show him each of their manager to worker ratios. If its not somewhere between 1:10 to 1:15 they should be made to conform to this industry standard.
If the programs don't complain about the overhead costs to support these managers, nothing will change.
Since many LLNS programs don't have direct private sector competition, the business viability feedback loop is not present.
In NIF a LLNS FTE 300 series manager took the job of a laid off Akima 500 series warehouse employee last Fall 2012. Did the NIF manager transform into a "worker bee"? Yah right. You see the 300 series manager brought 300 series "scope" and "insight" to the departing Akima 500 series assignment. Try that one if your just a technical 300 series looking for work. What a monopoly. For you my accomplished technical 300 series friend, well, a reclassification downward is in your future. Hold your head up and be happy about it.
Managers generally don't face lay offs unless they do something so offensive the lab can't defend it, hide it, or lost control of the information. Even in those rare cases, all actions are spun as voluntary.
POS
Unlike sex or race discrimination, few cases are ever won against age discrimination in America. It seems to be a type of discrimination that is largely accepted by the public.
December 31, 2013 at 2:12 AM
Exactly how did the guards "use assault weapons"?? You mean they carried them in the course of their duties, which they always do. Try to tamp the hyperbole a little.
(per Trial testimony) :
Kept a FX (with 2years seniority) and ISP/IN (30+ years seniority), since keeping a FX would allow us the flexibility and ease to reduce staff in the future! ...... (With this strategy, Mgr can layoff any IN they dislike.
Why didn't George put this business strategy bullet on his view graphs during his ISP presentation?)
Exactly.