The group I work in was about 60% HON employees and 40% Contractors doing the exact same work as the HON folks. They took out 50% of the HON folks and not one damn contractor. WTF? I know now what they think. You are not valued unless you are a contractor. This is just so wrong. How can they do this? It goes against the posted RIF policy on HR Direct.
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And, @UWT, what fantasy world are YOU living in? When has HW EVER "needed" legitimate justification for any layoff? And since when have they played by their own rules?
They will just eliminate whatever heads makes the most "business sense" to them, by whatever "business sense" definition happens to strike Mad Dog's fancy today.
It makes perfect sense if either an Aero sale is pending, to buyer who plans to contract this work, or HW decided to move everything to contracting as rapidly as possible. In either case, why would you RIF contractors that already know the job?
You have given RIF'd employees good news, because it's pretty strong evidence that we aren't seeing a partial shutdown or temporary cost-cutting measure.
Both RIFs this year they did not touch the TEMPs but laid off the HON employees. This is wrong!@ How can this be justified>
Its simple. You can be let go with Covid as excuse now. Later to let go of contractors they dont need a reason. They need someone to do work now.
The exact opposite happened here in Olathe. The RIFed all of the temp and contract people first thing when this virus hit then a few weeks later is when the started RIFing the actual employees.
Policy says you shouldn’t be fired first... lmao!
Coincidentally I started as a temp directly when an indirect RIF took place 3 years ago around August. I did get hired in, but why would they hire me when firing emoloyees? I doubt I can expect better treatment.