Can anyone confirm that a mass HCL rebadge happened recently in the Canadian offices? Also, if you are rebadged you will soon be fired and replaced by a Guatemalan.
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I know someone who was severed by HCL and given the accumulated Xerox/HCL offer. Sued for another week/yr and won. Get a good lawyer.
I dont know if there is much point in seeking legal advise. People have been going through this for a few years, it's not something new.
In Canada you can either not sign and xerox gives you severance (whatever the min. is for your province - usually 1 week per year). Or you can sign over to HCL and have everything transfer over and keep working. You basically have no other choice other than to rebadge. That at least extends your job for about a year while you train replacements and then when laid off you get a better severance than you would have with Xerox. The training is brutal but if you are lucky and determined to be critical to the dept you could keep your job (although not sure if that is a good thing). HCL pays your severance in a lump sum so you can go line up another job and get a big payout to help you with bills and loans or drink your sorrows away. Some people just used their lump sum to last them over the set time period and then were able to go on EI after that.
There is a rebadging happening at Xerox Canada Ltd as of July 9, 2021. Approximately 48 individuals were invited to a "TownHall" where they were then surprised that they are "re-batched" and Welcome to HCL... They are then told that termination letter will be sent to their inbox . HCL give 2 days to review and sign contract... If one does not sign they are exited from the company. If Xerox does this you should immediately seek legal advise.
Here’s how it went in the US. You were taken into a room and told your job was moving to HcL and you were given a piece of paper outlining your new employment terms.
If you signed it, well good on ya mate, you were an HcL employee.
If you refused legally you were terminating your own employment with Xerox and therefore xerox was legally absolved from paying you severance. Very sneaky but legal. Go USA!!!
The job market in those Canadian markets is hot right now, there is no reason why anyone should remain at Zerox, unless you have absolutely zero transferable skills. Rebadge and ultimate firing will be a blessing in disguise.
Despite things getting worse Xerox keeps on rebadging…
@3nac
I only know of admin staff this time (customer service, leasing, collections, billing, order entry, could be more) Toronto and Montreal. I don't have any further details.
You'll be lucky if it's Guatemala. A lot of the US was replaced by India. It's awful
@3ylr
Ontario law for Ontario employees with 5+ yrs tenure w/X. Minimum one week severance per year worked.
@3md
They are lucky, in U.S. we had 3 days to take HCL, if you said no you got no severence and no way to collect unemployment
A rebadge just happened Fri Jul 9/21 for approx. 70 Canadian employees. Given three days to sign with HCL or take minimum allowable severance package.
There was a rebadge in Canada about 2 years ago. We were transferred to HCL and you kept your pay, vacation time and service time. Then spent the next year documenting and training your replacement. Once they were ready you were laid off and received a severance package based on your Xerox/HCL service time. The severance in Canada was pretty good compared to the US rebadge where people got like 3 weeks for every year of service.
90% of Xerox "employees" in Toronto are temp workers from India who work like paid slaves.
By law previous years of employment with Xerox must be taken into account by HCL for severance purposes.
How does severance work in that instance? Would they be treated as new hcl employees for severance purposes ?