ACS guidelines Advance notice. Four-week minimum. Severance pay. Minimum is two weeks per year of service. Additional notice may be given, by mutual agreement in lieu of severance pay. Assistance. Efforts should be made to piace terminee in another position within the organization, or terminee should be given assistance to find employment elsewhere. Pension plan vesting. Full vesting after 10 years'service. Employee service. Those with minimum of 10 years1 service should not be terminated except for continued evidence of previously documented inadequate performance or cause. Employee protection plans. Should be extended for one month following termination at same rate of contribution as before. Employee would have additional 31-day grace period. Rehire privileges. Rehire privileges should be carefully explained to terminees.
seven chemical engineers from R&D. The CPR report makes special note of one facet of this layoff: "Two terminees from Allied's Syracuse facility, who did not continuously work during a preceding work stoppage, raised questions concerning strike duty performance as a factor in Allied's terminee selection. "As ACS's guideline regarding strikes reads The employer should not penalize the chemist who performs only his or her duties during any enforced work stoppage occurring on the premises,' the company was asked to comment on this matter. Its response states that Allied's policy is not to require employees to perform duties other than their normal duties during strikes if they have bonafide reasons for not doing so. In the absence of such reasons, however, Allied does expect all employees to participate in operations of struck facilities. Company officials further stated that only one chemist expressed dissatisfaction with his work assignment during the strike last summer and, in fact, failed to report for work for a brief period of time. Nevertheless, his subsequent termination, which was one of several resulting from the reduction program, was in no way influenced by this matter." •
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CAS plans inventory of European chemicals Chemical Abstracts Service will produce a preliminary inventory of chemical substances in commercial use in Europe under a contract recently concluded between the American Chemical Society and the Commission of the European Communities. The preliminary inventory, to be called the European Core Inventory (ECOIN), will list about 35,000 substances selected by the commission and which can reasonably be assumed to be in use in commerce within the nine member countries of the European Economic Community. It will include many substances from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Substances Control Act Inventory as well as substances from several specific European files processed earlier by CAS for EEC's Environmental Chemicals Data & Information Network (ECDIN). The contract calls for CAS to provide technical and processing support for the publication of the core inventory. CAS performed similar processing for EPA in its preparation of the Toxic Substances Control Act Inventory. In compiling information for the new core inventory, CAS will rely on the programs and files of its computer-based Chemical Registry System to establish the identities of the substances reported. The system identifies substances on the basis of a computer language representation of their molecular structures. The publication of the core inventory in the summer of 1981 will be a preliminary step in the collection of information about commercial chemicals in Europe by supplementary reporting. Chemical substances that are included in the core inventory will not need to be reported to the commission during the supplementary reporting period, which will begin in the fall of 1981. The commission also plans to publish a Compendium of Known Substances to support the supplementary reporting of chemical substances by European chemical companies. After the reporting period is concluded, the commission will prepare a third publication, to be called the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances (EINECS), composed of the core and supplementary substance reports. European chemical companies will be required to notify the commission of any substance introduced into commercial use in the European market that is not contained in EINECS. •
