noname2200 on 22 January 2009
| NJ5 said: I think by law (or at least by ethical codes) they can't talk about layoffs publically before employees have been told about it. Since this is all still pretty recent news, they probably don't even have defined plans yet, much less went through all the necessary steps to make the announcement public. Notice how we first heard about Sony's 16,000 layoffs back in December, and today we still don't know all the products that those concern. |
I don't think it's illegal to tell the public about layoffs before you tell the employees (at least not in the U.S.), but it is a dick move.
On the other hand, that's become something of big business' specialty, so who's to say?
