Michael1942's Blog

Recent months have revealed the true nature of a National Non Profits Springfield branch. The first shot was the termination of 200 plus employees and stating that this was normal practice. Normal practice was to “lay off” the employees in this program (Head Start) during the summer months. There were some employees due to the nature of their jobs were on the job year round. This “termination” was due to a change in the health care laws mandating that an employer need to pay a portion of “laid off” employees Cobra. This mandate would have cost the agency about 20,000 dollars. To get around this “All” employees were all sent “termination” letters, the reason for sending letters to all was to give the impression that this action was not directed towards one group,  before this not “all” of the employees received layoff letters. Now the that the Head Start employees have formed a Union, the agency has started a course of ambush firings. They call an employee in and terminate them with no true cause other than your program ended. These are employees who were normally “laid” off during the summer but were asked to stay on and administer a summer program , returning to their old positions at programs end. The upshot is we have a “rogue” segment of a national Non Profit that underserved their clients.