Don’t look now, but it looks like the first shoe dropped . A major federal case on telework just found that RTO for telework was uncovered as illegal and exposed for its real intention of a way to force workers off payroll. Since being laid off a little over a year ago I’ve worked in Washington knocking on doors and exposing the flood of workers from India that transpired prior to this flood of layoffs, and exposing AT&T for targeting older workers in some of their most critical and vulnerable years of working. I’ve made a lot of headway in pushing for more obstacles of this flood of workers from abroad to replace the American skilled labor. I’ve just begun with that, but this recent legal fight has just begun. While this current case that was just won singles out the RTO trick that was played on Government workforce workers, this may have a trickle down affect in the private sector. When companies like T do things that were illegal, it greatly reduces the effect of that , “no sue” paper they forced you to sign or forgo you earned severance. That’s also another thing I’m working on with my talks to senators. This little game that T has waged against the workforce should be exposed for what it is. I encourage that the ones who were impacted by this game T played with past layoffs and the upcoming layoffs with no cost to T be exposed. If you were wrapped up in this game please take some time to sit down and send an e-mail to your local state leaders especially in places like Texas and Georgia. Don’t give up just because people from upper management kicked you in your teeth. Transfer your mobile, internet and other communications to less expensive providers, make sure you hit up “friends and family” about cheaper services as well. This is the impact to the company when they abuse its older vulnerable workforce. I know from inside sources that more layoffs are upon us prior to entering the holiday season, hang in there, don’t give up, and know that your targeted voice to you local state elected leaders matter.
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@an the GALL of paying people to go to work!!!
@b6 Thats not true, attorneys I spoke to knew this very well and openly expose that they sprinkled in a few in an attempt to cover and confuse. It was so exposed that in a lot of cases you will never hear of T settles so the exposure don't fester. thats what signing that right to sue paper costs you when they force you out and hold your severance over your head.
@b6 Older workers generally have more in-depth community ties whilst younger folks do not. It was targeted that way to push out the older, more expensive employees.
It would be hard to prove that the intent with RTO was to get only older workers to quit. If younger employees were included in RTO that would harm the case.
@an let’s be clear, we weren’t asked, we were told. The forced change in status cost us fuel and unpaid time. The company lost nothing and it saved their building leasing scam. Go back to your office and gaslight someone else you loser. The employees added hundreds if not thousands per year in fuel and time on the back of 1.3% raises . This company is a total joke. I’ll keep playing their game but let’s not pretend they picked our pockets.
The audacity of a company asking employees to work in an office.
https://youtu.be/SOpFNUr8Zfk?si=oCc-giIc3XV_Qduo
is this what we are talking about ?
It is not illegal to RTO. But it is illegal to discriminate based on anything covered under the EEOC. You gotta approve that. Even though we all know, that’s really what it was.