maverick4u
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Illinois
I am a "Temporary" employee of a firm that does contract work for a Fortune 500 company here in Illinois. (The reason I put Temporary in quotes is that this Fortune 500 company outsourced this entire area of their operations and our contract is renewed every year. I am then a "permanent" at will employee of this outsoucing firm)
About a year ago this outsourcing firm bought another outsourcing firm and we were switched over to this new firm. That is, we are now at will employees of this new firm-albeit this new firm is now a subsidiary of the parent firm that bought them. We were required to get new badges reflecting our affiliation with this new firm and were now considered part of their group.
In talking with other employees of this new firm that we were transitioned to (people who were already employees of this firm we were transitioned to BEFORE the takeover) we discovered that their benefit program was different from ours-especially when it came to vacation benefits. We both received 80 hrs. of PTO (paid time off) but they also recieved two floating days and five sick days that they could use at their discretion.
My question is since we were transitioned to this new firm a year ago shouldn't we also be entitled to the same benefits that everybody else gets? Can they legally give one set of employees a different group of benefits they give another set of employees? Now they are talking about changing our benefits starting 01/09 but still shoudn't we ge "back" benefits for the year of service we just did?
I am a "Temporary" employee of a firm that does contract work for a Fortune 500 company here in Illinois. (The reason I put Temporary in quotes is that this Fortune 500 company outsourced this entire area of their operations and our contract is renewed every year. I am then a "permanent" at will employee of this outsoucing firm)
About a year ago this outsourcing firm bought another outsourcing firm and we were switched over to this new firm. That is, we are now at will employees of this new firm-albeit this new firm is now a subsidiary of the parent firm that bought them. We were required to get new badges reflecting our affiliation with this new firm and were now considered part of their group.
In talking with other employees of this new firm that we were transitioned to (people who were already employees of this firm we were transitioned to BEFORE the takeover) we discovered that their benefit program was different from ours-especially when it came to vacation benefits. We both received 80 hrs. of PTO (paid time off) but they also recieved two floating days and five sick days that they could use at their discretion.
My question is since we were transitioned to this new firm a year ago shouldn't we also be entitled to the same benefits that everybody else gets? Can they legally give one set of employees a different group of benefits they give another set of employees? Now they are talking about changing our benefits starting 01/09 but still shoudn't we ge "back" benefits for the year of service we just did?