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Just got a call back from TAA Regional Coordinator - RE: ALL MQ employees.
Posted: Jan 19, 2010
Rosemary called me back just now.
She contacted the Federal Office. The Fed Office is going to contact ALL STATE COORDINATORS to clarify them on this TAA program for MQ employees.
If you can prove with pay stubs that YOUR PAY HAS DECREASED with MQ during all the changes going on with CBay buying MQ and sending increasing amounts of OUR work to India -- YOU ARE ELIGIBLE EVEN IF YOU ARE STILL WORKING.
I told her I lost about 800 dollars a pay since they eliminated my department and took my hourly rate away and then the appearance of NJA screens. She said THAT would make me eligible. I told her my state and my local offices told me a cut in pay is not applicable in the TAA program, but she said YES IT IS. Not only does the TAA pertain to hours lost but WAGES lost, also.
Everyone who had zero luck before, re-contact your state coordinators because they are all being notified that those of us who have been affected salary-wise are eligible for help through this program.
Again--Thank you to the person who originally posted this information below.
Finally!--the MQ employees who have been affected already by all this will get some help.
Those of you who have not been affected yet -- (and you will be) -- the program is active until 2011, so you have time, too, when your work makes it to India.
Let us remember there is strength in numbers! - Every MQ MT
[ In Reply To ..]nm
well - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Don't keep the pay stubs anymore. I just work more to make up the difference, so I have absolutely no proof.
Medquist has IPay --record of pay stubs - Contact HR -- make request
[ In Reply To ..]to have check stubs sent to you. Also, if they take out state taxes, there will be a permanent record of all your wages earned in the state you reside. So, there are other ways to get the salary information. First, try IPay, then send email to support asking to have HR contact you about getting your past pay stubs. Just try.
Sorry -- should contact Medquist payroll - -
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MQ Employees - Contact state's TAA regional directors here - --
[ In Reply To ..]First, locate your state,
http://www.doleta.gov/tradeact/FedContacts_Regional.cfm
just got off the phone too - bj
[ In Reply To ..]I just got off the phone with TN office and she said our pay had to be decreased by 80% before we qualify unless we get laid off and MQ has to say we were laid off because of work going overseas. 80% pay cut??? anybody had an 80% pay cut? I have had a pay cut but not 80% so I guess that gets disqualified.
I had a little over 60% cut. - But that was
[ In Reply To ..]because I went from a decent hourly rate to penny production rate.
It is over half my pay. I thought that would be good enough.
Apparently not.
Oh well, happy again for a moment for nuthin, I guess.
With whom did you speak? -- obviously not true - -
[ In Reply To ..]You should apply for UE, then make appointment with local office. Once denied again send all info to federal office as a complaint. Do not give up. DO NOT. Not everyone that has qualified received an 80% pay cut. I believe staff are arbitrarily interpreting the Medquist TAA petition criteria and without accuracy. Do not give up.
I spoke to ...sm - bj
[ In Reply To ..]I spoke with Robin Wright at the TN Dept of Labor. She is over the TAA. She had already spoken to one other MQ MT today and told her the same thing.
and the number is inside too - bj
[ In Reply To ..]1-800-432-5268
Please contact our TAA regional director by email-phone - --
[ In Reply To ..]The same thing happened in North Carolina. Rosemary is the regional director for 8 states which include Tennessee and North Carolina. I'm original poster of all info from North Carolina. You can email me if you like.
You need to contact Rosemary by email/phone immediately. PLEASE.
Rosemary Williams-Raysor
TRA Lead
404-302-5378
FAX: 404-302-5386
williams-raysor.rosemary@dol.gov
80% absolutely true - anon
[ In Reply To ..]"To be eligible for TAA benefits, you must have been laid off or put on a reduced work schedule (hours of work reduced to 80 percent or less of your average weekly hours and wages reduced to 80 percent or less of your average weekly wage) on or after the "Impact Date" and before the ending date of certification."
Please see link below. Please also note that your hours of work must be reduced 80%. You can't use a reduction in pay because of doing ASR. That is not a result of your work being off-shored.
Not true -- I just needed to prove decrease in pay - over UI quarter year
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NJA so no pay -- - anon
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Got TAA-UI because proved NJA available and decrease in pay -- no one stated ASR - is a reason for TAA
[ In Reply To ..]Where are you getting your info that ASR is reason to apply for TAA?
That is not what I'm saying. - anon
[ In Reply To ..]Please read my post again. I'm saying ASR is NOT a reason for getting TAA.
Further, my link is to a US Government website. Please read it. It says you must have your hours and income reduced 80%.
You are reading that wrong. - Read.Every.Word.Carefully
[ In Reply To ..]Seriously.
Slow down.
Read the wording CAREFULLY. Word.by.word.
" . . . if your hours of work are reduced ---TO--- 80% of your average weekly hours . . . . "
TRANSLATION: You are working only 80% of your average hours.
" . . . wages reduced ---TO--- 80% of average pay . . . "
TRANSLATION: You are getting only 80% or less of your average pay.
The FEDERAL coordinator told me that yes, I am eligible -- I lost 50% of my pay proven by paystubs.
Your pay has to be reduced by 20% or more.
Your hours have to be reduced by 20% or more.
She said the wording was very poor on this.
I agree. Obviously people are reading it wrong -- including state coordinators.
No matter what, there will be the doubters. I talked to federal - office -- told the same
[ In Reply To ..]Also, I received email from my TAA regional coordinator yesterday, Rosemary, and she explained the decrease in wages in detail. YOU ARE RIGHT. She said the same thing IN WRITTEN COMMUNICATION as well. The TAA coordinators throughout the U.S. now have a mandate from the federal office to understand the decrease relative to the 20% as you explained. It is not that hard to understand if you read everything. There will always be doubters. But, what I don't understand is why not apply, be turned down first, then come back and say the regional TAA director was wrong. You can always contact Rosemary for yourself. She is TAA regional director for 8 states.
TAA - FT/PT? - Meena
[ In Reply To ..]Does this apply if you are PT as well?
Thanks for posting that! When you say this - Kiki
[ In Reply To ..]program is good until 2011, does that mean just thru 2010 or including 2011?
I wish their was a way to inform ALL MQ employees of this. MQ should be REQUIRED to inform ALL of us.
TRA - EL
[ In Reply To ..]I just got a call from the head of the TN Dept of Labor TRA division to set up an appt to fill out my application becauuse I am eligible for compensation.
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