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Do you believe it is in the best interest of the Laboratory and its employees to continue with the present layoff policy, that has been in effect for over 20 years, and not change to the proposed new policy?
Number mailed 3357
Number returned 568 17%
(20 of which were blank)
Yes 335 61.1%
No 213 38.9%
2 Anti-SPSE 9 The world has changed... 11 Give managers the opportunity to manage (FTE levels) 16 Business necessity, common in "real world" and industry 16 New policy is better than old, but still not perfect 19 Expanded No 27 Seniority vs. SKA (unaware of present policy's SKA aspect) 28 Need to cut the "deadwood"
2 Should apply Lab wide and UC system wide 2 Lab has not provided sufficient information or answered questions 3 Seniority is the only objective measure 6 Loyalty: employees deserve retraining 9 Wrong direction: attacks S&Es, protects administrators, will lose advantages over competitors, quality will decrease as it's based on long-term employees 10 Legal aspects: age discrimination, violation of social contract 31 Expanded Yes 51 Refer to management: distrust of management, management "deadwood," failure to manage, present policy sufficiently flexible
1 Complaint that colored paper cannot be recycled 1 Reverse age discrimination (against younger employees) 1 A summer employee worried about hiring than "firing" 2 Policy should apply to all employees 3 The question was badly worded 6 Just undecided
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