Happened to my son.
Happened to my niece.
Then it happened to me in 2010 when the hospital shut down their medical transcription department and sent our jobs to India. They said we could continue working for Nuance, the Dictaphone subsidiary that’s taking over almost all MT jobs in the US.
Because we were technically offered jobs with Nuance, they refused to give us severance pay. We then let them know we would be pursuing legal action as a group and suddenly they changed their tune. We got 1 week of severance pay for every year we worked there up to 7 years. They also tried to block our application for retraining through the Dept. of Labor, something our liason said she’d never seen a company do.
They had money problems a few years later and had to merge with another healthcare company so Karma got them in the end. 🤣