Posted on 10/19/2015 6:24:24 PM PDT by markomalley
SunTrust Banks in Atlanta is laying off about 100 IT workers as it moves work offshore. But this layoff is unusual for what it is asking of the soon-to-be displaced workers: The bank's severance agreement requires terminated employees to remain available for two years to provide help if needed, including in-person assistance, and to do so without compensation.
Many of the affected IT employees, who are now training their replacements, have years of experience and provide the highest levels of technical support. The proof of their ability may be in the severance requirement, which gives the bank a way to tap their expertise long after their departure.
The bank's severance includes a "continuing cooperation" clause for a period of two years, where the employee agrees to "make myself reasonably available" to SunTrust "regarding matters in which I have been involved in the course of my employment with SunTrust and/or about which I have knowledge as a result of my employment at SunTrust."
The employees were informed of their layoff at the end of September, and the last day of work for some is on Nov. 1. This is according to several of the affected employees, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.
The severance is seen by affected employees as a requirement to provide ongoing technical assistance as needed. The severance agreement itself says that this assistance from former employees "will be requested at such times and in such a manner so as to not unreasonably interfere with my subsequent employment." An employee shared the severance clause with Computerworld.
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I’m pretty sure that is a violation of the Constitution.
Ted Cruz H1B ping
Have they ever heard of the “Emancipation Proclamation”?
Seems to be in conflict with Amendment 13.
Not that that matters anymore.
Sounds like servitude to me.
Take the money. Leave. Dont look back. It can always be reasonably inconvenient to help. Reasonably is a subjective term and cant be proven.
Bye.
Indeed.
This is the bankers equivalent of pi$$ing off your waitress or chef. A big no no.
But tough toodles for them. I would have took that severance agreement straight to a lawyer.
If I had any money with this company I would move it somewhere else. This is basically slavery.
In a move to well, let’s say “take advantage” of their former employees, to make a few more dollars, this bank might just end up losing a huge lawsuit over this.
Big time.
I sure hope so. I have no sympathy for this nonsense.
Bring back American jobs.
The guest worker part, the severance contract obligations, or both? It seems like there is a gravitation towards lowered freedom in both.
he did the 500 percent thing to expose the hypocrisy of the left regarding Hispanics.
if they want foreigners so bad, he said, how about millions from Asian countries?
It was a statement. and a good one.
he didn’t know the left would twist it in the papers and even conservatives who dont follow things would be believe it,
I would tell them where to stick their severance package.
Yep. When they call, tell them you have another job and don’t have the time.
1. The idiot bank doesn’t seem to know the meaning of the word severance; a severance which they have executed.
2. If they thought about it for more than 5 seconds, the idiot bank might realize it’s probably a bad idea to try and force work out of a terminated employee without compensation; especially when that work involves giving the employee access to the computer systems.
3. The idiot bank also didn’t consider the tremendous bad PR this sort of move generates,
The article is silent about the terms of the severance. They are only telling us the consulting requirement. What is the severance package? If that package is worthless, then it would be easy to walk away from the whole deal. If the severance package is considerable, then they will be paid, in effect, for their consulting services.
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