The law would apply just the same regardless of who their employer were, Apple or Apple’s supplier. The obligation just lies with Apple’s supplier, not Apple.
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Apple Lets Go of Recruiters as Company Slows Down Hiring
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The law would apply just the same regardless of who their employer were, Apple or Apple’s supplier. The obligation just lies with Apple’s supplier, not Apple.
It’s ironic how they opened the new Apple campus right before the pandemic and since then have never been able to fully utilize it. The concept behind it was to allow for spontaneous interactions between employees. But now many employees apparently don’t want to return, preferring to work from home. I wonder if the building will ever be utilized in its intended way.
Only one thing about this news stood out to me. 2 weeks severance. Didn't everyone just help Tim Cook get a $110,000,000 (not a typo) bonus? Something is way out of balance in society these days.
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Firing the people who hire employees right before tons quit for having to go back in 3 days a week
What if the contractor contracts themselves out directly?
They're slowing hiring because interest rates were increased, i.e., no more bond sales that provide billions in free money from the government.
I don’t see any worry on Apple, unless they start closing some of their retail stores.
Only if they were let go from the contractor’s organization. These individuals could just as easily be reassigned to other work. And, generally speaking, there is no expectation of severance for contractors with the contracting company. Regardless, in the US there is no requirement to do it in any case. https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/severancepay
I could not locate an instance internationally where a contractor, when contract is terminated, is given a severance unless part of the contract. That would partially defeat the whole point of using contractors.
It does. That is why they want people back at work. The ones they let go were the ones who did not sign the agreement to move with the headquarters to Mars.
Personally, I'd request the items at my desk to be crushed into a small cube & spent into space.
Really, it's the least they could do /s
I was wondering if they were in-house, or some external staffing agency. Looks like it's somewhere in between.
They are probably starting with slimming down the fat that doesn't want to go back to the office using Covid as an excuse. Let the layoff onslaught throughout the job sector across America begin. All those people that roll their eyes when you ask them for a packet of ketchup are next lol.
They are contractors. Depending on the company they could still be paid while the company is placing them with another company. Now, if they get fired from their contractor, that’s different.
They weren’t even Apple employees.
And, apparently, current recruits are not a great fit for the company either! Was it because of these contractors?!?It will. If the folks that wanted to continue working from home were a significant number of Apple employees, they wouldn’t be asking them to go back to work. Apple has, I think, between 30 and 40 thousand employees in California, most of them likely in Cupertino. MAYBE 5,000, likely less, don’t want to go into an office anymore and they may temporarily let those jobs go with the employee that had them… and pick them back up when they’re hiring again.
They have more money than they can spend. Remember Steve didn’t believe in dividends and fought against it year after year.
Where did I show “glee”? Our economy is failing and the public can’t afford basics. I couldn’t be more chagrin.