I have been with Lowe's for 11 years. The last year and a half I have been the PSI Coordinator. I work as the "secretary" for the PSI. I was told Friday by my store manager about the PSI program going away. I am not offered any severance pay but the PSI gets one. I was told to apply for any other openings in the store. I asked about unemployment and was told I had to check this out myself as each state is different. I am lucky, I was planning on retiring in the spring anyway. But still, I feel coordinators should be receiving severance too. My job was eliminated.
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Sorry Pete
I don't know how many coordinators there were but if it is more than 500 associates then they must give you a severance or 60 days notice. It's called the WARN ACT.
Are you full time? Our full time PSI/PSE coordinators were told only PSE coordinators are left if the PSE sells 850,000 and 20 hours PT or they could take the severance, they were handed a packet.
Thoughts are PSE will be next and at PT no severance so they should go now. That’s what they told us that asked in the store. I’m so sorry for you and all those dealing with this.
On what grounds? (For the class action lawsuit) . The company is well within their rights to do what they did. It's not fair or right for the ones affected but not illegal.
They can do whatever want. They use policy when it benefits them. Otherwise Ellison throws any previous Lowe’s policy out the window. It’s just plain lousy the way he’s treating good, tenured employees.
Time to show him a class action lawsuit!
This is bad Daisy. Poorly managed.
Good luck
I feel for your situation. If you have been there 11 years, you should know it could happen to any position. Salaried employees are the only positions that offer severance packages. Don't miss the point: I hate that it happened but it is a policy that has not changed.