Furloughs are now being used to gauge how many people the site can run with.
There will be one more lay-off in the middle of September, numbers will look like the first round.
Pay attention to the town hall in August especially when they go over the numbers and the Q&A.
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It’s so sad — why do they have to have layoffs every couple of months — April, June and July? If they want to lay people off, why can’t they just do it at one time for example, once a year? UOP used to be a fun place to work. What they are doing now is demoralizing.
Names for this round in July were submitted in early June. Mangers at certain levels knew. They gave the names! July was about salaries. If you were the most expensive on your team then you were gone. Some got 3 hrs notice, some 2 weeks, some 1 week. It's all on a script the manager reads. They are not allowed to deviate. HR is NOT on to ask questions but to ensure the manager follows the script. Don't fall for the sad manager, they put your name in.
There will be cuts to middle managers and top managers in Q3.....permanent demotions/salary reductions for many since the business will be smaller.
@drz - I completely agree with this. The managers may play dumb and act all innocent but, I am sure when the layoffs happen, the process will be set in motion at least a month or two in advance. you will subtly notice - team changes, project assignments, reduced communications, indifferent attitudes from managers and from people who are in the inner circle etc. But, this doesn't apply to Honeywell. The day you are hired at this company, you should be prepared for a job loss at any moment. Honeywell is dead to me !
I don’t know how Honeywell does it but I was part of management at my old job. When we had to do layoffs management got notified weeks in advance. Worker bees don’t get advanced notice. You think they pick people a couple of days in advance? The list has to go through to site leader HR and then Legal. That doesn’t get done in 3-4 days.
And legal has to look over the list to make sure there are no age race or s-x discrimination.
You don't get 4 or 6 weeks notice if you are RIF'd. The most you will get is a week.
RiF notifications will be made second half of August for those leaving by end of September.
No speculation. The only thing that would change what I heard is vaccine on the market.
We are preparing for the second wave and need to setup for a strong 1st quarter. All the People who we’re offered packages will be off the book by the end of January. That with no raises and a work force reduced to 30-40% its original capacity should help.
This furlough was done due the gap in the cares act. Which is why their was short notice. Management already has a list for 5-10 more people, per 13 Honeywell uop sites which will start August 14th.
Good luck to everyone. I suggest looking and getting out now before the holidays if you can.
My thoughts if the government approved another cares type bill there will be layoffs.
It seems like they waited for the cares to expire so we couldn’t file for unemployment.
Does anyone know if we can now or has anyone tried.
Operations and the Labs were hit hard.
I think next go round it will be the 8hr workers and salary people.
@xts...
The offices have been decimated as well. Lost at least 40% since April.
Gotta be office people. Our production has been murdered, but yet we aren't furloughed. You.ca. get rid of more people without closing the doors... and that's what I see.
Its true. More reductions have already been announced at several sites. There will be another RIF in Q3.
Is this speculation or do you have reliable intell?