"Federal and state governments should look into this and demand transparency or tell IBM no more tax breaks."Ī spokeswoman at the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, Justine Lisser, said the law is still on the books. "This is just another attempt by IBM to hide the number of job cuts taking place and the continued destruction of the IBM employee population in the U.S.," he said. Based on this privacy concern, IBM has removed that data from packets," he said. "IBM is addressing concerns raised by employees that the age/title information IBM previously provided infringed on employee privacy. IBM's Shelton confirmed that no such document was included in the packets.
The act is intended to ensure fair treatment of workers over age 40. No names are in it, but there are job titles, and for each title, a count of people and what their ages are. That document is made up by the employer for each "decisional unit," or company segment where a broad layoff is taking place, and tells how many people were selected for the cut and how many were not selected. IBM omitted a key document from the sheaf given to employees who were being terminated, one that would appear to be required under the federal Older Workers Benefits Protection Act, a 1990 amendment to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. This year's "resource action" paperwork was different. Peter Shumlin confirmed a downsizing that was expected to be about one-third the size of last year's 419-person cutback, which would equal about 140.
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In Vermont, the Burlington Free Press reported that Gov. and Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. the Littleton, Mass., Lotus group Tulsa, Okla. Reports have come in from Rochester, Minn., and Essex Junction, Vt., near Burlington, as well as Dubuque, Iowa Columbia, Mo. Three other Poughkeepsie reports were relayed by Lee Conrad, national organizer of the a workers' union-backed group based in Endicott, Broome County, where cuts were also occurring, he said. Two parties saying they were at Yorktown Heights, a research facility in Westchester County, told of layoffs there. Another source said he had knowledge of four people in East Fishkill, a semiconductor chip site.
as well as Albany and Yorktown Heights," according to Cuomo's press release.īut several sources told the Poughkeepsie Journal that there were cuts Thursday at Poughkeepsie, and one source, who requested anonymity, said she had communications involving nine employees. It calls on the company to "maintain 2,350 jobs along with 750 jobs in its semiconductor plants and related fields in Dutchess County. Cuomo said IBM committed itself to "maintain 3,100 high-tech jobs in the Hudson Valley and surrounding areas," increasing its minimum jobs commitment to the state by 750 jobs. Andrew Cuomo's deal, announced Monday in Buffalo, has the state investing $55 million to set up a technology center with IBM as the first tenant and one that will bring an eventual 500 jobs. "As reported in our recent earnings briefing, IBM continues to rebalance its workforce to meet the changing requirements of its clients, and to pioneer new, high-value segments of the (information technology) industry," Shelton said. telling you they have been notified today, you should trust them." IBM wouldn't say that was the case.īut spokesman Doug Shelton said in an email that "if there are IBMers based in N.Y. There were reports from both Poughkeepsie and East Fishkill, as well as IBM sites elsewhere in the state.Ī deal between IBM and New York state may have had some protective effect, but not a complete one.Ī state official had said on condition of anonymity that the state's understanding was that New York would have no cuts. The cuts hit Dutchess County and sites across the United States, say people who spoke with the Poughkeepsie Journal or with the workers' group, But cuts appeared to be relatively light compared with those of 2013. And you can't count it up because the company has, for the first time in years, eliminated a document that was part of packages given to terminated employees, claiming "privacy," which a workers' group leader called "absurd." A number of IBMers are trying on the new identity of "ex-IBMers" today as the company's 2014 downsizing has come to pass.
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