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Re:Normalising Layoffs/Firing by hellisothers on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:06AM (#33204531)
While this is true, the company could just pay you $18,500 less and put that in your pension. Benefits are fungible.
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Re:Normalising Layoffs/Firing by listenallyall on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:26PM (#33207105)
That's not how a defined BENEFIT pension, like what GE offered for decades, works. The "defined" promise is related to what the employee receives, not what is contributed.
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