MBA/560
Legal Issues in Reduction in Workforce: FastServe Inc
FastServe Inc (FastServe) is a $25 million 350-person strong company involved in the direct marketing of branded sports apparel that focuses exclusively on American's sport-crazy Generation Y segment. FastServe opened up two online marketing and distribution channels www.fasterve4boys.com and www.fastserve4girls.com for boys and girls respectively. 10% of the workforce was moved to manage the online distribution.
The Web sites has become so cumbersome to download that the potential buyers were not making enough transactions for such technological investments to be viable. FastServe has decided to move out of the online distribution business. The online division had to be downsized; concessions were made and of the five identified employees the decision of whom to retain or release would fall on the senior manager of human resources.
This paper will outline and discuss the thought process for the decision that was formed to provide the organization with three viable employees to release and fulfill the responsibility for maximum the benefit for FastServe Inc.
FastServe Senior Manager of the Human Resources Department has the responsibility of reporting to the vice president-human resources the outcome after the consideration of the legal implications in a way that it translates into the maximum benefit to FastServe. The final decision will be communicated to the employees within a week.
After reviewing the information (Table 1) and the knowledge of the laws that govern the workforce (Table two) the decision are: 1) Brian Carter ? layoff, his skills are now redundant FastServe will provide outplacement support. 2) Sarah Boyd ? inform Sarah that layoff is inevitable, and a severance ...