still waiting for details on how 3M Decatur will be affected by lay off. Stay classy 3M, why make a big announcement then have your employees guess as to what might be their fate for 2 months?
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Decatur = toast. And yes it’s older
To the person saying Decatur is nothing but old people, the place wouldn’t be running without the old people. This new generation doesn’t want to do anything but play on their phones
To the person who made the comment calling 3M Decatur a “nursing home”… there are probably plenty of employees in Decatur, that are eligible to retire, but the question is, can they afford to retire? Have you priced insurance for a person who is eligible to retire, but is not Medicare eligible? Then, have you looked at the deductibles on that insurance? If you include premiums and deductibles, a person could easily be out of pocket $20K a year before insurance covers anything. If a person were to get cancer, or any other dreaded disease, it could be financially devastating. Then, there is medication to consider. I am certain they have weighed their options and are doing what they feel, they have to do.
You are probably angry because you or a coworker friend is either being laid off or having to change jobs. If you talk to the older employees, I’m certain you will find, that the same thing has happened to them, probably more than once. Your post was both thoughtless and insulting. Wisdom comes with age (you showed your age by making that comment), you will see, when it’s your turn to make that life altering decision. It’s not as easy, as you think it is. Someone should read your comment back to you, when you are retirement eligible and maybe then you’d see just how ridiculous it was. If anything is sucking the life out of you, it’s your own attitude.
Decatur has so many employees that are eligible to retire but they want. People like that has sucked the life out of 3m also. 3m Decatur is like a nursing home with all of these old employees.
WARN act: The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act (or the Act) requires all employers in the United States with 100 or more full time employees to provide 60-day notice in advance of mass layoffs or plant closings. The Act applies to full time workers who are not on a temporary assignment. The Act was originally passed in 1988 and seeks to provide workers with sufficient time to prepare for the transition between the jobs they currently hold and new jobs.
Pretty sure they have to based on the Warn Act.
https://www.schneiderwallace.com/practice-areas/employment/warn-act-mass-layoff-closure/
The process 3M uses is entirely top-down driven to make it as cheap as possible for the company. Balancing cost-savings with chance of lawsuits and unemployment claims. It has nothing to do with actual operational efficiency or what is actually good for the business, just today's dollar target.
With a plant layoff the only people who probably know the list of names are the plant manager and the plant HR manager until no more than a month ahead of time. Only they are likely to have any meaningful input into deciding who stays and who goes.
Product managers likely won't know the names until a week or two before, and they will more than likely not have much/any input to the list. Line supervisors/leads might not find out until the day before, a week at most and will usually have no input.
Yes, they do it on their own timing with every layoff. In 2019, they announced 2,000 in April and notified employee at the center in July, a full three months after the announcement and just days before the next earnings call so MR could say we have executed on our playbook. Any comments about respect for employees, or even the trite “customer first” are a joke. It’s all about quarter to quarter, stock price, and self preservation for the CEO. Nothing else really matters today at 3M but the short-term because there is no winning strategy.
They want you to close Q1
They have done this with every layoff. They love seeing the employees tip toeing for months. How in the world do they get nominated for most ethical company because by a long shot they have no idea what ethics is!!!
They trying to prevent bad press because this is just one wave of many.
Absolutely this.
Strategic business methods , they need you guys to build up inventory before a big layoff and don’t want everyone getting other other jobs before they secure what they need 1st