I requested from my PDR (Ops Manager) interest in requesting the early retirement package. I have worked in GOMBU for 25 years. I was denied having access to the EOI because according to my PDR my job was critical to the success of our project. Many of my friends who I work with requested and received the package. This seems unfair and perhaps I can take legal action. I need some advice. Is there nothing I can do?
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2lku, It's obvious that you are one of the hapless snoflakes who need something to complain about and claim that everyone is against them and they need to benefit and someone else should always pay. As usual it's always someone else's fault, never their own. I agree with the poster, age discrimination claims are just another legal loophole for incompetent, lazy and disgruntled employees to try to "get back" at their employer and seek vengeance for getting laid off, as if it's the companies fault that the people are incompetent, regardless of age, or that they have to lay off due to market influences. Go cry somewhere else.
Wait till your project is finished and if you have to post for another position at that time approach your PDR again and express your preference for termination.
Hope it works out for you and you get your early retirement with a nice payoff cheque.
The title of this thread should be Expression of Disinterest.
Quit trolling -1xll. You don't believe any of what you said. Just stirring the pot to get a reaction. Age discrimation is at the center of Chevron's layoff program. You know it and so does every honest person.
I fail to see the significance of so-called "age discrimination". I am convinced that the so-called "age-discrimination" phenomenon is simply another excuse for incompetents to seek some type of retribution, and for them, it is strictly monetary and a means to sue for their own personal windfall. Think about it, do you think that the plaintiff would actually settle for "getting their job back" as a settlement? I don't think so. I am in my sixties and just got hired on at a consulting firm, valued highly for my years of experience, paid more than I could ever imagine when I was younger. Where is all the "age discrimination"? Was there "age discrimination at Chevron because they laid off specific people? There's always some kind of discrimination if you want to pick it apart. They need to lay off higher paid workers to be able to stay in business and pay the remaining staff. Most of the higher paid workers are older. Wow, Rocket science. Wait, I have a great idea to make big bucks, fellow disgruntled incompetent employees and unscrupulous lawyers. Let's claim "discrimination" based on age. That way we can make a big settlement and claim that we are being picked on and cry like babies, instead of finding gainful employment which we don't want anyway since we are lazy and incompetent and worthless to society. We would rather just be pathetic professional victims.
It doesn't matter how you view it, the whole process is irregular. The ones getting the axe are the older employees (age discrimination). You may hold a position not intended to be eliminated, but if you are old enough and earn a high salary, just EOI and see your wish granted. If you are still young enough and not yet at the highest pay, your request for an EOI will likely be turned down. Forget about what's legal, the company will do whatever is necessary to cover up overt acts of age discrimination.
@NkT0jKf-1xma, no, qtv is 100% correct. They may have so-called back-filled that space but technically the position is eliminated on paper, to keep it legal. What your opinion is in this case does not matter. It doesn't matter who carries that remaining workload, existing or a new person, that exact position is eliminated, formally. I understand that superficially, it looks like a simple replacement. What happens in actual practice though, is different and is what is giving you the illusion that the positions are being "backfilled".
qtv. Wrong the severance package is not only for eliminated positions. Employees have selected the EOI option and been let go then their position back filled. In my BU we were told if you select the EOI option at a PDC and are over 50 then you stand a very good chance of receiving a package. Many did and got their desire. But yes it is at the companies discretion and not guaranteed.
Just be glad they want to keep you. Staying employed is always better than getting a package.
I think @twt hit the nail on the head. The severance package is for eliminated positions only. The company is in the right here. Nothing to sue about. As much as an employee wants to retire and leave with a "bonus", it's not his or hers for the asking. Severances are not manadory by law and are paid out by some companies as a form of compensation for early termination.
Just leave. Sound like a free-loading, greedy, Democrat constituent....gimme money....mo' money....and mo' money.
They said your job was essential, not you.
you can retire any day you like. A severance package is for people/positions eliminated. Don't be greedy
Why would he(she) be fired?
Not unless you want to be fired.