From Newsday:
Binder & Binder plans to lay off 100 of the 147 employees at its Hauppauge headquarters, a state regulatory filing says. ...
The layoffs are planned for Dec. 11.
In addition, Binder & Binder plans to close its Long Island City, Queens, office and lay off all 90 employees, also on Dec. 11, a separate WARN notice says....
Not a huge surprise. This was a managed bankruptcy from their hedge fund owners, right? The bankruptcy plan leaked on-line a few years ago and gave a detailed Excel spreadsheet as to who was getting laid off and when. Now begins the blame on the Wall Street Journal op-ed page (and other anti-SSD crusaders). Is this the Shakespearean effect of the SSD representatives' greed, or are they just a victim of hedge fund vulture capitalism?
ReplyDeleteLove the Cowboy Hatted Wonder or not, dude got in, got paid and got out. He is laughing as he spends.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's what it's all about isn't it?
ReplyDeleteWell if it was about more than that wouldn't reps be doing more in the communities for disabled individuals than just kicking them out the door after the check comes?
ReplyDelete@9:28 opined reps should be doing more in the community for individuals with disabilities than kicking them out the door when the check comes.
ReplyDeleteThis is a 2-Way Street. SSA, especially ODAR, should also be setting an example for other employers by reasonably accommodating successful career employees who develop a disability whenever it would not be an Undue Burden, and the employee is able to perform the essential functions of their job. Yet, they have a very long track record of doing the direct opposite, to the point of engaging in PPP’s to push these employees out the door, and rewarding the Managers who engaged in such conduct with promotions, etc., rather than holding them strictly accountable for the PPP’s they engaged, often repeatedly, over the course of several yeasts.
The Jantz Class Action Disability Discrimination case reveals such conduct dating back to the 1980’s. The real shocker is SSA, especially ODAR, not only continued to engage in such conduct during the decade the Jantz case was litigated, but has continued to engage in such conduct post the Jantz Settlement in February 2016. When will SSA, especially ODAR, start acting as a responsible employer, and hold Managers who repeatedly engage in illegal PPP’s fully accountable? It certainly seems the Agency has a far greater responsibility than the reps. Yet, despite civil service Merit System Principles, statutory and case law, look at what they have gotten away with for decades to this very day.
In 2016, 17.9 percent of persons with a disability were employed, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. In contrast, the employment-population ratio for those without a disability was 65.3 percent. The employment-population ratio for both persons
ReplyDeletewith and without a disability increased from 2015 to 2016 (by 0.4 percentage point for persons with a disability and by 0.3 percentage point for persons with no disability).
The unemployment rate for persons with a disability, at 10.5 percent, was little changed from the previous year, while the rate for those without a disability declined to 4.6
percent.
The data on persons with a disability are collected as part of the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly sample survey of about 60,000 households that provides statistics
on employment and unemployment in the United States. The collection of data on persons with a disability is sponsored by the Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy. For more information, see the Technical Note in this news release.
Highlights from the 2016 data:
--Nearly half of all persons with a disability were age 65 and over, about three
times larger than the share of those with no disability. (See table 1.)
--For all age groups, the employment-population ratio was much lower for persons
with a disability than for those with no disability. (See table 1.)
--For all educational attainment groups, jobless rates for persons with a disability
were higher than those for persons without a disability. (See table 1.)
--In 2016, 34 percent of workers with a disability were employed part time, compared
with 18 percent for those with no disability. (See table 2.)
--Employed persons with a disability were more likely to be self-employed than those
with no disability.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/disabl.nr0.htm
"Well if it was about more than that wouldn't reps be doing more in the communities for disabled individuals than just kicking them out the door after the check comes?"
ReplyDeleteApparently you don't actually know many representatives. Take 15 minutes to meet and get to know the real rep's not just snipe about the low level reps contracted by B&B. If you did, you would find extensive work being done by us on behalf of the disabled, work with community organizations, funding of food banks, homeless shelters, lobby groups for the disabled. I do not know any real disability attorneys who are not extensively involved and supporting the disability community. Give me a break!
@ 7:59 not in my area, not once in 15 years of social services have we ever had a rep show up to help, even when asked for assistance. NOT ONCE!
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