My manager was canned this week. Told that the position has been relabeled as Waterloo. They weren't given the option of relocating, this was the first they heard about this on the HR call. She tried to ask questions and kept getting the same response that the company wants this position to be located out of Waterloo.
This tells me that there's an effort underway to identify where positions need to be located and we're going to see WFRs around location requirements on top of other WFRs.
That is literally crazy considering most SLT and ELT are remote. They don't even come into the office ,.forget 5 day RTO rule. Why isn't the HR targeting them ?
@bq she was a US based employer. There is no protection. Opentext can unfortunately legally make any specific role required for a specific location. The only illegal thing would be if they fire someone for that reason and later fill that role back in the US. Open text has already stated that they are no longer hiring remote employees outside of sales.
@bq we in the states dont have that.
While there is a federal push it's not law. Plus that would apply to American companies opting for HB1/overseas hiring - a company that isn't ours at worst gets named and shamed.
The only real saving grace is if there's work of theirs that can only be done in the states. If that's not accounted for that could be a lawsuit from a client. That's about it though, most of the US is mutual at-will.
I have expected, since the 50 km radius announcement, that once all of those people settle into an office (or leave, or get laid off) they will count the empty seats and extend the radius to 100km.
@bz enh, I wouldn't put anything past OT. They do some fu---d up sh-t.
(x) doubt I know many who have been given a year to relocate. Your manager, sorry manger being surprised by this is questionable. More like thinking they're so valuable they can thumb their nose at being forced back into the office as if OT cares
Lol...that HR will be fired soon. It's an illegal reason to be laying off someone's, at least in some Canadian provinces. Lawyer up!
I wish they'd can the entire exec team.
Talking about a waste of space.