Working for over 8 years with IOL, and never seen anything like these multiple meetings from multiple levels of management, in one day. This is crazy exciting! Anyone else feeling excited like me? It can’t be just to announce layoffs. That... — read more 

Imperial bailing out of Syncrude. Sands are consolidating. Expect further rationalization on production side today. Refining makes money, production in sands does not.

IOL will announce 10% cut across Canada by year end. Managers have signed confidentiality agreements last week and submitted names to HR. No forced or incentivized retirement. Severance will be 1 month per year of service, so expecting mostly mid... — read more 

Been quiet. What’s going on? Anyone hear what the plans are going forward?

Good news!

IOL is in the same situation today as pulp and paper was 10 years ago, and it was a bloodbath - for the employees. The future of hydrocarbon development is Guyana, Brazil, Mozambique, New Guinea, insert low cost producer. Not North America. You... — read more 

Anyone excited??!! It surely feels great to return to black after a period of red. We are on the right path. Let’s move forward.

We will cut at least 20% of the workforce from our Canadian Operations.

Get ready folks it’s coming!

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If that is the US plan, do you think IOL will axe similar amount of jobs?

I know IOL is always looking at XOM to tell them what to do, but still thought someone in IOL might have some idea of what is going on. Is there anyone in this chain with any internal info on what Kearl and Cold Lake will do?

Did IOL people receive notice about the Oct 21 forum?

Haven’t heard of any new layoffs in the last one or two weeks. Does this means we are done with the layoffs for this year? Or, is this the calm before the great storm?

Anybody have the insider info on how much of the wage folks are going to be impacted by the layoffs? Any numbers from the exxon europe layoff plans?

How many people have already been let go? Can they achieve the numbers they need just by letting go the People who got NSI and put on PIP?

May be we should form a union, to prevent future layoffs.....

Have they made any changes to the usual package due to the pandemic? What do they offer now? Is there any extended medical coverage provided or is it an immediate cut? I'm positive there'll be more layoffs before the end of the year so I'd like... — read more 

Many of my colleagues have been quietly laid off from Imperial Oil over the last month. All were long term, technical, smart and hard-working. Not a peep on this site. Weird?

Due to Covid 19 and low oil prices (Saudi vs Russia). Any layoffs are coming? They will have to reduce their operation expenses.

Imperial Oil runs very lean. With prices dropping, it'll run even more lean. We have a large workload relative to the amount of people on each site and you should be aware of that - that is the reason why you dont see many layoffs as we cannot afford... — read more