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"I got laid off without a severance package."

• havnagiggle 3y ago
  This is the area I am most interested in. I have personal experience where every member of my division (~25-30 people, including my manager) was laid off and received severance. I was deemed too important and should stick around the empty office or move to remote work. I would have rather received a severance package and moved on. Employment lawyers confirmed that this was okay, and it just sucks to be me. Now I'm in a gig that's WFH, with quite a few teammates also WFH, but we're effectively local to an office. There's a real possibility of my company making one of these descend on the office policies, and I will be left out of a severance package a second time. The state of worker rights is awful.
• aeyes 3y ago
  It looks more like they quit. I would have just not returned to office and waited to be laid off.
  • blibble 3y ago
    indeed at least in the UK employers can't make unilateral contract changes and things like working from home for 3 years (for everyone) are likely to become implied contract terms even if they're not written down if you did want to resign as a result it seems like an easy constructive dismissal case
  • malfist 3y ago
    Amazon has told it's employees if you don't return to the office you will have "voluntarily resigned" Not sure how legal it is to fire an employee by telling them they resigned by choice, but that's how amazon is phrasing it. Oh, and no paper trail. Managers are told to give those instructions verbally and not in slack/email. Asking HR to confirm it and they'll tell you to call your manager.
    • kyleee 3y ago
      3 nights in jail for all execs and managers who implemented this clearly illegal behavior and we’ll let it slide