The purpose of this Blog is to provide a meeting place for employees of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to investigate the possibility & probability of legal or other actions to assure the rights of those affected by the VSP or their exclusion from participation in it.

Saturday, March 10, 2012


  1. Kudos to the person(s)establishing this blog. I'd like to suggest that first-time posters/commentors list some basic info re: their status, such as "Ineligible","39 weeks severance" (if ineligible, you won't know the exact amount because Oracle has you locked out--but estimate it), "Organization", "Gender", etc. Any/all of these are optional of course, but it might help the blog organizers, and readers, learn more about the demographics of a potential 'class'. It would also be an indication of how widespread this inequity is. [Please comment below. See March 8 entry, NAME & INFO DATABASE, below]

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  1. AnonymousMarch 9, 2012 at 7:40 PM

    Let's do the math as LANS did it. There are 300 workers that were "excluded". Where I work the workers that are on the list that are less than ~ 55 are ecstatic because they think they are protected when the involuntary hits. I figure there are about ~50 people (> 55 years old) that LANS screwed here. LANS knew this are willing to take a risk that we will die are roll-over with their action. Question is "do they feel lucky?" They feel they will be because we have no union and they figure we will not unite. So what it is folks? The choice is ours.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 10, 2012 at 8:28 AM

    Continuing the math: 50 employees * 30 weeks severance (0.58 yrs)* $80,000/yr = $2.3 million that LANS would save by excluding just 50 people. Even if there IS a class action against them, it probably won't cost them that much...they're willing to take the risk. I, for one, would like to call them on it! If we're going to get 'organized' and do something, it's going to have to be SOON. After an encouraging start, this Blog seems to have lost some steam: I hope this is only temporary since this is such an important issue.

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    1. AnonymousMarch 12, 2012 at 11:27 AM

      My understanding is that Federal Government is paying for Severance. My question is: Did DOE/NNSA approve LANS "excluding" workers from this severance? Is the Federal Government complicit with LANS in violating the rights of LANS employees? Did LANS capriciously not inform the Federal Government that they were going to deny eligible workers from access to severance payment(s) from the Federal Government?

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  3. AnonymousMarch 10, 2012 at 8:30 PM

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  4. AnonymousMarch 17, 2012 at 8:49 AM

    I wish you guys well, how many employees fall into your category of "Fit to retire but denied?

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