From the Contra Costa Times: The
public-private partnership that runs Lawrence Livermore Laboratory must
pay five former employees $2.7 million for wrongfully terminating them
during a 430-employee reduction in May 2009, an Alameda County jury
decided. Ending a trial that lasted more than two months, a jury
found that Lawrence Livermore National Security wrongfully discriminated
against the five employees because of their age and terminated their
employment without good cause. In making the finding, the jury decided
that the company, a public-private partnership between the University of
California and Bechtel Corp., must pay the plaintiffs a total of $2.7
million for lost wages... While laboratory
executives argued the layoffs were done to position the organization for
the future, a lawsuit filed against the company claimed that many of
the people picked for layoffs were higher-paid senior employees. In
fact, during the trial, one witness who kept her job said employees
began calling the layoff day "Gray Day" because all
the people who lost jobs had gray hair. Evidence also showed the average
age of those who lost their job was 54...
Full story at www.contracostatimes.com/tri-valley-times/ci_23219268/lawrence-livermore-lab-must-pay-five-former-employees
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