Thank you for clarifying what you meant. That’s why I included an apology at the bottom of my reply. And as far as my son and his co-workers go that I used to illustrate the gist of my article, they are not asking to be kept on regardless of the company sell off, they just need to know the actual date their jobs are ending with the hope they will have three months notice or a severance package or some form of compensation beyond getting their PTO time cashed out since unemployment in some states won’t pay enough to pay all the bills.
My son has to renew his apartment lease September 1st but since he doesn’t know exactly when his job will end or if there will be any extra compensation, he will have no choice but to renew the lease. There is the potential he would have to break that lease and pay an entire year’s rent while looking for another lower rent apartment depending on what happens. The employee training the Mumbai employees who will be taking over their jobs is in the same boat with his rent.
During my research I found out that a lot of company’s do not give out severance packages, employees are just given one — three months notice as to when jobs will end. In today’s job market that is not much time to find a job that pays enough to live on. Especially for employees who have car payments and insurance, rent and utilities, mortgage payments, student loan debt, on top of food, and those with children and a wife to support.
We live in a small city which is considered to be rural in Kansas that has high unemployment with few jobs, even in fast food, and those mainly go to kids 16–21 or community college students, so moving back home would not be much of an option. Most other jobs are in health care (CNA’s, nursing, Hospice, home health or rehabilitation services), Computer or IT (help desk) jobs are literally non-existent. Many of the people my son has met socially and through his job migrated from little farm towns and small city’s in KS, MO, and beyond like he did.
How many employees whose jobs have been cut because of outsourcing have ended up on welfare and become a burden on taxpayers because of the actions of these company’s and investment firms and they are forced to take on minimum wage jobs which do not pay the bills in larger cities. McDonald’s wages won’t come close to paying the bills.
