If you get sent to a supplier (WiPro or HCL) you most likely move to the supplier's severance, which is often just two weeks. Just ask all the engineering folks that got sent to HCL a few years ago and saw severance dropped to two weeks before HCL axed them.
Talk about being royally screwed by Xerox. I hope they sued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWLoJczwNrE
I had a front seat view of the El Segundo wind down. My dept worked with Wipro, then Tata, then sold to HCL. They call it re-badging, but no, you’re being sold.
When the sale was announced, people got the option of leaving or a year’s guarantee with HCL. The really lucky ones could take the severance and retire under XRX. Those guys were the winners. 54 and older was the key, the extra year was bridged and they qualified for retirement.
Everyone else had to either quit right then with severance or take a chance that HCL would keep them on after a year. Think hard if you stay. You WILL be asked to train an Indian to take your job. You will lose extra vacation and whatever you had with XRX. But you will get the same pay.
Some people stayed on after the year was up. Most were let go, 2 weeks severance. The ones that stayed invariably had work ability that the Indian replacement could just not grasp. The exXeroid had made sure to sandbag the training, so the Indian replacement just couldn’t fix problems quickly. As an exXeroid, I suggest doing that. Time for loyalty is over. You want to stay with HCL, then figure out how not to train the replacement, but making it look like you’re trying.
One of the things UB is credited for when 1/2 of engineering was sold to HCL, was she figured out how to outsource layoffs.
What would they sue for?? There is no guaranteed right to severance or vacation in the US unless you are part of a union..
Unfortunately in most cases, this is true under US employment law.
Unfortunately yes, unless there is an agreement in place beforehand. For example HCL was on the hook for severance if they person was let go within I think the first year and was still on the Xerox contract. In other words not moved to the bench or another contract.