Let me see if I get this straight: some of the younger employees who were laid off are being invited to reapply at GM immediately because the only reason for their dismissal was to mask disproportional number of laid off older employees and hide age discrimination.
If this is true, how is it legal???
The proportion of Supplier Integrated Engineers is about to skyrocket. New business model. One day, GM will be nothing but a holding company for a handful of extremely wealthy executives while everybody else doing the actual work are just sc-aping by - held hostage by their ever-diminishing paycheck and ever-increasing living expenses.
The major automakers are either going to merge or throw in the towel completely. Right now it feels like GM is headed for the latter, sadly.
But if they only backfill with 22 year olds after the layoff, it's age discrimination.
Backfilling after mass layoffs happens at every company when they discover some of those positions are more critical than they thought. Glad you could join the rest of us in the 1970s.
Most will need to secure other gainful employment before GM ever gets around to re-hiring you. At that point, you'd quit your new job to return to working for THEM? Why, exactly?
I'm going to guess anyone, young or older, can reapply after they are laid off. Were they to lay me off I'd tell them to pound sand personally.
I was laid off (I'm early 30s, been at GM just under 3 years). I was told both by the HR and the EGM (not my EGM) who escorted me out to the gate to re-apply to vacant positions as they appear.
I believe this opportunity is available to anyone who was laid off. I dont see why this would be different for anyone else
Yes it is BS. Look at this way, if you have only a few years with GM, your less than generous severance package may not be worth signing, and so entering the lottery to apply for another job, may be worth it, rather than wave your rights to be re-employed again. It however doesn't change the fact that GM is not going to hire many if any at all former employees and risk a lawsuit. "I wasn't good enough to work there, yet you re-hired me?"
It’s just a BS rumor. I know for a fact that this isn’t happening. Plus with a lay-off you’re always ok to apply for other positions - it’s not like you’re blacklisted.