sounds like a change of operations coming this summer...anybody got some details
The "change" may well be going from "operating" to "not operating".
One day they are seemingly operating normally. All the bosses from top to bottom are saying everything is normal. Don't believe the rumors.
Then overnight, everything stops. Security guards show up and lock the gates. Trucks can enter but none allowed to leave.
Security guards roam the yard and the dock.
You are told to remove all your personal gear from the company property. (Get ALL of it. You will not be allowed to re-enter)
No employees allowed to enter (except those returning to terminal with company equipment) - only company officials, but none show up.
All bank accounts frozen. Any checks (including payroll checks) that have not been previously cashed, will bounce.
If payroll checks are on automatic electronic deposit, they will NOT be credited to your account after a certain time and date determined by the company previous to the unannounced shut down.
Any overdrafts due to the "automatic deposit" not being made to your account, will be charged to you.
Even if you are holding an actual paper payroll check issued before shutdown and signed by company exec James L. Welch, it will bounce
That check will be considered a bad check being passed by YOU - not James L. Welch or the YRC authorized signer, like it should be.
It happened to me twice, in spite of the WARN Act that has been in place since 1988.
The companies seem to just "thumb their nose" at things like the WARN Act and litigate everything for years or until all the money is gone.
I argued with the bank that it was NOT my name on the bottom of that check. I did not issue the check.
The company wrote the bad check.
Why am I being charged with trying to deposit a bad check? Go after the person who issued and signed the front of the check.
It fell on deaf ears. Even though the check was issued and signed before the account closed, the company did not leave enough money in the account to cover checks already written. It took months to get my financial record cleared through that bank and the credit reports.
I suggest anyone else try this. Write a check and use it to buy something. The account does not have enough to cover the check or the check is written on a closed account. The check bounces when the other party tries to cash it. Who do the bank and the authorities go after for passing a bad check? You for passing it ? or the poor scmuck that took it and later tried to cash it ? (even though he had a signed and dated check issued by the company) In this case - Company wins - scmuck loses.
Isn't t strange how the laws are different for the common working people as they are for big corporations ?