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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 988403" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p><a href="http://www.salary.com/layoff-survival-guide-creative-approaches-to-layoffs/" target="_blank">Layoff Survival Guide: Creative Approaches to Layoffs - Salary.com</a></p><p></p><p>.<em>..Another option is to refuse to terminate people at all. <u>Southwest Airlines has a no-layoff policy. Federal Express has a similar policy</u>, so when shipping volumes decrease, the company leaves jobs open, takes job requisitions off the books, and cuts hours.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p>The article is undated, but I believe that it was written before 2009, when the informal policy of Express became an official philosophy. Express did in fact perform de facto layoffs in 2009. </p><p></p><p>What they did was to offer positions in far away places, and gave the employee which was to be "let go" the option to transfer or to keep their job for 90 days then be let go (give them time to find an opening at a location which they wanted to transfer to). There was a form of "buyout" offered to wage employees which were faced with this situation, but the amount was pitiful. There were extensive postings about this very subject back in 2009 regarding this very subject.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 988403, member: 22880"] [URL="http://www.salary.com/layoff-survival-guide-creative-approaches-to-layoffs/"]Layoff Survival Guide: Creative Approaches to Layoffs - Salary.com[/URL] .[I]..Another option is to refuse to terminate people at all. [U]Southwest Airlines has a no-layoff policy. Federal Express has a similar policy[/U], so when shipping volumes decrease, the company leaves jobs open, takes job requisitions off the books, and cuts hours. [/I] The article is undated, but I believe that it was written before 2009, when the informal policy of Express became an official philosophy. Express did in fact perform de facto layoffs in 2009. What they did was to offer positions in far away places, and gave the employee which was to be "let go" the option to transfer or to keep their job for 90 days then be let go (give them time to find an opening at a location which they wanted to transfer to). There was a form of "buyout" offered to wage employees which were faced with this situation, but the amount was pitiful. There were extensive postings about this very subject back in 2009 regarding this very subject. [/QUOTE]
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