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After 18 days of striking, the Verizon strike came to an end with the agreement that Verizon would cut some requirements from the workers' mandatory overtime. The new rules were workers are to work at least 7.5 hours of overtime a week, and the most overtime they can work is 10 hours.
Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, 740 F.3d 623 (D.C. Cir., 2014), was a case at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacating portions of the FCC Open Internet Order of 2010, which the court determined could only be applied to common carriers and not to Internet service providers. [1]
But Verizon, the telecommunications giant, seems to have found a way to hold onto its employees. The average tenure of around 110,000 workers is 12.9 years, well over three times the U.S. average .
Nearly all Verizon Wireless workers are nonunionized. [8] Union leaders refused to accept a new contract citing multiple issues, including pensions, healthcare, work assignments, job security, and wages. According to Verizon, employees received $130,000 a year in wages and benefits. Union leaders claimed that the average total was $74,000 a year.
An incumbent local exchange carrier is a local exchange carrier (LEC) in a specific area that on the date of enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 , provided telephone exchange service on the date of enactment, was deemed to be a member of the National Exchange Carrier Association pursuant to the Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R ...
Verizon Business was created following Verizon's acquisition of MCI Communications in January 2006. [3] The division became Verizon Enterprise Solutions on January 1, 2012 and is based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. [4] [5] Verizon Enterprise Solutions is the division of Verizon Communications that manages Verizon's business and government ...
Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, 535 U.S. 467 (2002), is a United States Supreme Court case in which Verizon Communications argued that the FCC had an unreasonable way for setting rates for leasing network elements. It held that the FCC can require state commissions to set the rates charged by incumbents for ...
In a news release dated February 22, 2016, Verizon announced plans to acquire XO Communications' "fiber-optic network business." [3] [4] In 2017, Verizon completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of XO Communications. [5] [6] As of summer 2020 all XO services have been migrated to Verizon.