But none dare call it blackmail
Already called. let’s clobber them with calls.
No hablo engles...
“, and to do so without compensation.”
Nice.
Similar to unpaid overtime.
The workers don’t have to take the agreement. They can just be severed. Not saying the severance package is a good deal or a bad one, just that the workers are free to tell the company to stuff it.
Start bringing discrimination suits. This isn’t about pay. This isn’t about skills. This is about giving our jobs to India.
They want the US staffers to work for free with NO benefits so it isn’t about pay.
They want the skills of the white former staff which are needed to bring the replacements up to speed for YEARS after termination of employment.
RACISM.
IBM didn’t even want to lose the white American staffers. They offered to help move them to India and hire them back for a small fraction of their original salary (and without Obama mandated benefits).
What absolute crap. Now this is where lawyers and whoever else needs to get involved. This company has a lot of nerve.
I’m tell SunTrust to go pound sand, and then have my lawyer give them a call.
Nice. From highly paid professional to unpaid intern. The circle of life.
I'll be the severance agreement also has a non-compete clause blocking you from working for a competitor. So you can't land a new job and have to be on-call for two years to provide free consulting.
SunTrust Banks in Atlanta, good luck finding anybody to work for you. You'd have to be insane to take a job at that company.
P-O-U-N-D S-A-N-D
Depends on the size of the severance check. If it was big enough, I’d sign on to that deal. If it wasn’t, I wouldn’t.
Let me get this straight... The geniuses at SunTrust BANK, are going to expect to use the FREE services, on call, of their FIRED/LAID OFF employees whom also are IT and/or EXPERTS at computer hardware, software, and/or high level security and (anti-)hacking theories and methodologies.
That’s.... AWESOME!!!! :)
"but the document also called for raising the prevailing wage paid to foreigners on H-1B skilled worker visas and putting in place a requirement that employers hire American workers first"
If they offer you a deal to be "on call" and the payout seems to be enough to make it worth it, then by all means, go for it. Otherwise, you've been laid off... it sucks, but you have to move on.
A little more info:
2 weeks severance per year of employment.
Here’s what purports to be the clause in question:
“For a period of two (2) years following the end of my employment with SunTrust, I agree to provide assistance and to make myself reasonably available to SunTrust regarding matters in which I have been involved in the course my employment with SunTrust and/or about which I have knowledge as a result of my employment with SunTrust. It is understood and agreed that such assistance, to the extent possible, will be requested at such times and in such a manner so as to not unreasonably interfere with my subsequent employment. Such assistance may include, but is not limited to, telephone or in-person meetings with SunTrust employees, attorneys and/or accountants, or the provision of truthful testimony by way of deposition, hearing, trial, interview, subpoena response or affidavit. SunTrust will be responsible for any reasonable and necessary expenses incurred by me and approved by SunTrust in connection with such services. I understand that I will not be entitled to any additional consideration or compensation of any kind from SunTrust in exchange for such assistance.”
Improperly train the replacements, take the severance and then just not be available.
Better option would be for all the IT to get together and negotiate a much better severance package as a group.
Give access to critical business systems to embittered former employees with no compensation but threaten legal action if they refuse.
What could possibly go wrong?
Nope. Violation of FLSA. Unenforceable in court.
No life for two years.
On Call deserves special compensation.
I’d walk on them at the nearest made opportunity.
Loyal to me not to thee.