Loic de Fourgéres, senior partner of Crusading Advocates LLC phones the new CEO of ENDTech.
"Per Mofaz, congratulations on your appointment. I imagine you have quite a bit of work to do get things running smoothly again as your predecessor has been away for more than a little while. I guess there are some fires to fight and some messes to clean up. Actually, I am calling about one little mess that he left for you. He was not respectful of the implicit and/or explicit contracts that ENDTech had with its employees when he laid them off without respect for their personnel records or seniority, and in addition, tried to impose an American-style amount of severance pay (just two weeks pay), rather than following prior company practice and Eutopian custom (one month pay per year of service). The case was before the Federal Tribunal when it was declared a mistrial (when people started throwing things at eachother) just before the prior Commissioner of Justice resigned. Now that the new Commissioner of Justice is in office, my firm, which is representing the dismissed workers in a class action suit, is prepared to recommence the hearing. This will take up much of your valuable time and mean additional legal costs for ENDTech. Therefore, I thought it would be in everyones' best interest if we came to a quick, amicable, and relatively inexpensive settlement. The amount I will suggest would be less than a quarter of what the severance element of the claim would have been and drops all other claims that could have added 50% to the cost if awarded. My clients would be prepared to accept two additional weeks of severence pay, plus of course their legal costs, which I have tried to keep at a minimum. You could attribute this to the actions of your predecessor, so it wouldn't reflect badly on you at all. Would this be agreeable, or should we repeat the hearing at the Federal Tribunal, paying almost as much in legal costs and taking the risk of a much larger potential settlement going against ENDTech? Feel free to consult with the President, in his capacity as MDIS on this matter if you wish.
"Per Mofaz, congratulations on your appointment. I imagine you have quite a bit of work to do get things running smoothly again as your predecessor has been away for more than a little while. I guess there are some fires to fight and some messes to clean up. Actually, I am calling about one little mess that he left for you. He was not respectful of the implicit and/or explicit contracts that ENDTech had with its employees when he laid them off without respect for their personnel records or seniority, and in addition, tried to impose an American-style amount of severance pay (just two weeks pay), rather than following prior company practice and Eutopian custom (one month pay per year of service). The case was before the Federal Tribunal when it was declared a mistrial (when people started throwing things at eachother) just before the prior Commissioner of Justice resigned. Now that the new Commissioner of Justice is in office, my firm, which is representing the dismissed workers in a class action suit, is prepared to recommence the hearing. This will take up much of your valuable time and mean additional legal costs for ENDTech. Therefore, I thought it would be in everyones' best interest if we came to a quick, amicable, and relatively inexpensive settlement. The amount I will suggest would be less than a quarter of what the severance element of the claim would have been and drops all other claims that could have added 50% to the cost if awarded. My clients would be prepared to accept two additional weeks of severence pay, plus of course their legal costs, which I have tried to keep at a minimum. You could attribute this to the actions of your predecessor, so it wouldn't reflect badly on you at all. Would this be agreeable, or should we repeat the hearing at the Federal Tribunal, paying almost as much in legal costs and taking the risk of a much larger potential settlement going against ENDTech? Feel free to consult with the President, in his capacity as MDIS on this matter if you wish.