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Last month, HP told select employees that they were going to be cut from HP’s payroll in an unusual way.

They would be offered a job at a different company that HP had contracted with to supply labor, so they would continue to work on HP projects, with HP customers.

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The new company would be making new job offers. Employees who turned down the offers would be cut from HP, and not eligible for layoff severance, which has typically been one week of pay for every year of service, employees have told us.

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