After being fired, Facebook employees have not received the expected compensation

Goal, delinquent? In any case, that is what the employees laid off in November during the wave of 11,000 departures decided by the American giant, Facebook’s parent company, believe. A particularity of these employees came from an integration program, the Meta Sourcer Development Program (SDP), designed to incorporate atypical profiles into the group, who have not completed the expected studies to work in technology.

All members of this program, more than 60 people, were expelled last month and were part of the latest cohort, recruited in April, according to CNBC. Now they believe that they have been wronged by the compensation that the group offered them after the layoffs: they have only received 8 weeks of salary and 3 months of health insurance, far from the minimum 16 weeks (with an additional two weeks per year of seniority). promised by Mark Zuckerberg. Meta’s employer had added that the health costs of the employees and their families would be covered for six months.

Employees do not understand what it has cost them a priori nearly half of the proposed compensation.

The program must not be directed

The letter, addressed in particular to HRD Lori Goler and Director of Operations Jamie Olivan, has not received a response since it was sent on 16 November. Silence followed by disappointment: members of the latest SDP cohort had been assured that they would not be laid off, just that their full-time integration could be jeopardized.

“During a recent question and answer session, Lori Goler even said that Pathways programs would not be affected,” her letter states. It was on the basis of this information that we were repeatedly assured by our managers that we did not need to start applying for positions outside the company…”

Several trainees have been hired since the last promotion of the SDP, at the end of the 12 months of training. Now laid off, they had been classified as short-term workers and not contract employees. they should via In this status they benefit from the same advantages, in particular insurance and retirement savings, but not from the ownership of employee shares.