HP is renegotiating the contracts so that hundred of its employees who take the new job with its partner(s) will make the same salaries as they did with HP, no pay cut.
It all started last month when HP gave a group of several hundred employees in its struggling Enterprise Services unit an unusual layoff ultimatum. HP had lined up a new job for them at one of its partners called Ciber. HP was contracting with Ciber to have the employees continue working on HP projects with HP customers. The job offers were non negotiable, employees were told. If they refused, they would still be let go from HP, but wouldn’t qualify for the severance pay that tens of thousands of previous laid off employees were getting: One week of pay for every year of service.
But Ciber job offers were very low compared to what they were making at HP and to what the job market offered. Some people are getting a 30% salary cut. Many employees didn’t take the offers. And some of them ignored the non-negotiable status and made their case to HP management why this situation was unfair to them and why HP’s customers would be hurt. A spokesperson from HP is telling us, “HP has taken additional steps to ensure affected employees are appropriately compensated.” ……
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