Some Meta employees claim they're not getting promised severance

A radical of Meta workers who joined the institution via a firm grooming programme accidental they are receiving inferior severance packages compared to different workers who were precocious laid off.

The employees are members of Meta's Sourcer Development Program, intended to assistance workers from divers backgrounds get careers successful firm exertion recruiting. The Sourcer Development Program is portion of Meta's Pathways program, which helps radical with non-traditional nonrecreational backgrounds obtain apprenticeships astatine the societal networking elephantine for assorted roles.

Nearly each subordinate of Meta's Sourcer Development Program, much than 60 workers, was fto spell from the institution arsenic portion of its monolithic layoff of much 11,000 workers earlier successful November, aggregate Meta employees told CNBC.

Several members of Meta's Sourcer Development Program told CNBC they joined Meta successful April arsenic portion of the company's latest cohort. The employees said they were not declaration workers and alternatively were categorized arsenic short-term employees that received each the benefits of full-time employees, including security and status funds but not firm banal packages. After completing the 12-month program, the employees would past beryllium converted to full-time employees if they met the indispensable criteria.

In a letter sent to Meta employees during the layoffs and posted online, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the institution would wage severance of 16 weeks of basal wage positive 2 further weeks for each twelvemonth of service, with nary cap. Zuckerberg added that Meta would screen the outgo of healthcare for radical and their families for six months.

But members of Meta's Sourcer Development Program said they are lone receiving 8 weeks of basal wage and 3 months of COBRA.

The workers said It's unclear wherefore they are receiving little severance packages than their colleagues, considering they were full-time employees and not declaration staff.

On Nov. 16, the impacted workers sent a missive to Zuckerberg and different Meta executives, including Meta's caput of radical Lori Goler and main operating serviceman Javier Olivan, informing Meta absorption astir their severance concern and asking for assistance resolving the issue.

"Even our erstwhile managers insisted we were confused and that each the accusation they were getting was that we were offered 16 weeks of wage and 6 months of wellness insurance," the radical wrote successful the letter.

They aboriginal added, "Leadership whitethorn not person been alert that the past SDP class, which began successful April 2022, was repeatedly assured by their enactment that immoderate imaginable layoff would not interaction their existent employment but would apt interaction the company's quality to see them for a full-time role."

The impacted Meta workers said they person not received immoderate replies from Meta's quality resources and absorption unit explaining their situation.

"During a Q&A recently, Lori adjacent stated that the Pathways Programs would not beryllium impacted," the missive said. "It was based connected this accusation that we were repeatedly assured by our managers that we didn't request to commencement applying to positions extracurricular of the company."

"We recognize that we are employed at-will and that concern needs are ever evolving and changing, but we couldn't assistance but consciousness possibly determination had been a mistake," the radical added.

The workers told CNBC that Meta has yet to reply to their letter, but has sent immoderate members acquisition packages intended to congratulate them for completing the Sourcer Development Program.

"We anticipation that Meta offering lone 8 weeks of basal wage and 3 months of COBRA to the impacted April 2023 SDP people is simply a clerical mistake and was not done with intentional disregard oregon callousness," the workers said successful the letter.

Facebook did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.

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