Judge Richard McDermott

Noted for 9:00 am February 7, 2002

 

 

SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON

COUNTY OF KING

 

LARRY E. PITTMAN and SYLVESTER        )

PITTMAN, MICHAEL PITTMAN,                )           No.  99-2-52345-8 KNT

TERRANCE A. DAVIS, KEITH KERN,        )

YOLANDA ESKRIDGE, MICHAEL             )           DECLARATION OF ROGER W.

DAVIS, GREGORY CODY, DAVID             )           KNIGHT IN OPPOSITION TO

LISTIOWEL ABRUQUAH, ARTHUR           )           DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR

FOREST, NATHAN A. KILCREASE,           )           SUMMARY JUDGMENT BASED ON

JOSEPH A. DONKOR, DARREL CODY,     )           AFTER ACQUIRED EVIDENCE

MARY COLEMAN, ERIC ARHIN,               )

SHABAE DIQUAN, SIDNEY LANIER,        )

RE-LASHIA SEARLES, JAMES GOODE,    )

CURTIS HOLLIS, and BENJAMIN               )

BARNES, individually,                                     )

                                                                        )

                                    plaintiffs,                       )

            v.                                                         )

                                                                        )

KING’S COMMAND FOODS, INC.,           )

a Washington business corporation,                   )

                                    defendant.                    )

____________________________________)

 

            I, ROGER W. KNIGHT, declare that:

            I work in the Law Office Paul H. King, performing those tasks that do not require a bar license.  I have personal knowledge of the facts of this case.

            Previously, I was employed by The Boeing Company as an Engineer, Boeing Paycode 4, a member of the Professional Bargaining Unit of the Seattle Professional Engineering Employees Association.  My dates of employment are from January 5, 1984 through May 29, 1995.

            During my time there, Boeing had a procedure for voluntary layoff.  What happens is that if an employee wishes to leave the company under amicable conditions, the company can offer to place him or her on a voluntary lay off.  The employee is not selected for lay off during a reduction in force exercise, or the employee volunteers to be laid off out of turn during such exercise, thereby reducing the number of involuntary lay offs by one.  In such circumstances, it is an act of compassion and generosity on the part of the employee volunteering to be laid off.  The deal is that Boeing agrees not to contest the employee’s application for unemployment compensation, it is treated like any other lay off.  Sometimes, particularly if the employee volunteered to be laid off out of turn during a reduction in force exercise, the employee is eligible for recall from lay off under whichever collective bargaining agreement applies to that employee.

            Therefore, if such employee lists on his or her application for another company that he or she was laid off from The Boeing Company, it is not a false statement of fact.

            I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington that the foregoing is true and correct.

Dated this 5th day of February, 2002 in Seattle, Washington,

 

                                                            ____________________________________

                                                                        Roger W. Knight for

                                                                        Law Office of Paul H. King

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