severance pay

How much severance has EDS Canada / HP paid to laid off employees?
Any input will be greatly appreciated as I'm trying to accumulate some stats about local layoffs.

thank you

I heard something like 3 weeks per year, plus an additional 4 weeks.
This might interest you as well.

Apparently, EDS should be paying overtime in Canada, as the overtime exemption I've seen appears to only apply to "information systems professionals", a protected title (think doctor, lawyer, etc...).

Your typical EDS Systems Admin, is *not* an information systems professional. Check out some of the occupational info sites, they make over a 100k a year on average.

On a related note, I heard they're trying to do away with pager pay next...

I've got all the urls a coworker from Alberta sent me re: labor standards, overtime exceptions and
the use of the term ""information systems professionals", but the forum appears to not allow urls.

Basically, I'd suggest you look up the labor standards for your province, look for jobs that aren't eligible for overtime, and see if they're trying to weasel out of paying you by pretending you're an "information systems professional".

I believe you can file an anonymous complaint with labor standards, that way you're not setting yourself up to be murdered (wouldn't put it past them at this point), should you end up costing the company millions.

Hoe much does a typical EDS Systems Admin make?

Zildo in Manchester, New Hampshire said: Hoe much does a typical EDS Systems Admin make?

can u b more specific, ie. windows, aix, etc.?

Pat Johnson in Santa Clara said: Well, I don't know that...but if you want to know more about how to increase a severance pay then you should read this article... resources.jobsbridge.com/?p=111

won't work. in the US you lose your vaca unless you live in Massachusetts

see (www.davismalm.com/Publications/June2009EmploymentLawE-AlertVacationPay.html)

In the US the max is currently 20 weeks,,,used to be 26, but will go down to HP standard of 17days on or before October ...just before the next bif WFR.

"Hoe much does a typical EDS Systems Admin make?"

Around here, maybe 55-60K CDN, after the recent cuts.

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Employees who are exempt from overtime and overtime pay:
- employees on a farm or a ranch
- domestic employees
- various types of salespersons
- professionals such as real estate brokers, and licensed insurance and securities salespersons
- professions such as architects, engineers, lawyers, psychologists and "information systems professionals"
- managers, supervisors and those employed in a confidential capacity
- licensed land agents
- instructors or counselors at a non-profit educational or recreational camp
- extras in a film or video production
- employees covered by other Acts (academic staff)
- municipal police officers

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"Information Systems Professional" is a protected title under Alberta's
Professional and Occupational Associations Registration Act. This
means that to call yourself an Information Systems Professional, you
must be a registered member of the Canadian Information Processing
Society of Alberta (CIPS Alberta). You do not have to be registered if
you do not call yourself an Information Systems Professional.

According to the 2007 Alberta Wage and Salary Survey, Albertans in the Information Systems Business Analysts and Consultants occupational group working part-time or full-time earned from $49,800 to $134,600 a year. The average salary was $111,700 a year.

Information Systems Professional Regulation, Alta. Reg. 39/1997
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22. "A certified member may use the title "Information Systems
Professional", "Informaticien professionnel agréé" and the
abbreviations "I.S.P.", "ISP", "I.P.A." and "IPA".