Thread regarding Enbridge Inc. layoffs

Do you think the Chinese or any Middle Eastern industries/companies even have these debates or concerns? No, they are marching towards dominance.

Do you think they are considering DEI in their business decisions?

We’re over here eating our own tail. Maybe we can tell our Grandkids about it.

@6bcs+1qXoVWYn, that's bullsh-t and you know it.

This is seriously insane! I know for a fact Enbridge has been on a DEI crusade, and have been trying to get rid of white employees for a few years now.
Over 90% of their IT is "offshore" workers from India...But since they're all contractors; they don't count toward their diversity goals.
Any full time positions that come up they outright refuse to entertain white males, not even joking.

If a white employee applies they'll be told on the side that they already "have a candidate in mind", or they have a "hiring freeze"...but still end up hiring the diverse candidate behind the scenes, or "you're just not the success story were looking for" etc.
I've personally seen this happen half a dozen times and had people complain to me because they couldn't believe they didn't even have the chance to interview.

Since manager bonuses (STIP) have a clause of adding 3-5% more "diversity" AKA non-white employees per year... And since only full-time employees (not contractors) count toward those numbers...The only way to reach those quotas are to lay off internal, white employees in favour of non-white. The alternative is the managers take a 30% hit on their bonus... Which they won't let happen.

I say you should sue their as--s off!

Lots of noise in here but few good points listed.

Fact is Enb said they aren’t competitive and need to lay off 650 people. They haven’t even done this yet and at the same time they said they need 3-400 more staff. The company isn’t expanding and where do those 3-400 people work. In the roles vacated by the 650.

Remember that we're bringing on thousands of new people with the acquisition, so who knows what the #s will look like by the end of 2025. The idea that cutting 5% in Feb 2024 to achieve a certain demographic by Dec 2025 is stupid.

“ The issue is that it is illegal to layoff 5% of your workforce in an attempt to boost your workforce percentage of a single race. ”

So you’re assuming that this layoff is about balancing the races and has nothing to do with actually boosting the stock price, overall company cost reduction. Makes total sense for sure :/

No need to turn on each other. Everyone is facing undue harm from impending layoffs. Everyone here likely agrees on fairness for all.

The issue is that it is illegal to layoff 5% of your workforce in an attempt to boost your workforce percentage of a single race. This is a fact and it is a law. This would also be an impossible court case if Enbridge had not released the two emails within a week of each other. This is another fact, Enbridge announced a goal of increasing black representation from 3.5% to 6% by 2025 while they are actively laying off around 5% of the workforce by March of 2024. Nobody has an issue with 6% or even more black representation. The issue is that it is illegal to fire people to get those numbers. In an attempt to boost diversity, Enbridge has created an environment of discrimination and it is turning people against each other.

"If you are upset that the company has 3.5 percent Black representation you're a closet racist"

alright let's get this back on track you fu--ing re--rds

The main point of this thread is not that X minority group is being favored, it's that the company is deliberately targeting Whites for less representation, i.e discrimination.

and please stop with the "muh united we stand divided we fall" bullsh-t. the company is now financially incentivizing less White people, functionally phasing them out of the hiring process in some cases.

why don't you try uniting around that?

If you are upset that the company has 3.5 percent Black representation , which is measly if we are looking at the size of the organization of nearly 12,000 employees, then you sir/madam , are a closet racist. Your white privilege is glaring. Maybe you should bank on your skills instead of worrying about the “oh Lordy, the blacks are taking over mah jerbsss”’

"Just to be clear there is potential that there is also a case for mental anguish, pain, and suffering of all employees, including black employees that don’t get laid of but are caused undue harm this month from not knowing if they will be laid off. "

I think employees of all colors and races are under stress and worry. Not just us AmericanAfrican employees.

Have you benefited from white privilege? Have you used your whiteness to advance your career ? Do most of ELT , and people in positions of power look like you ? Do you think maybe there is a reason for that?

Your conversation starter is the very essence of what entitlement and discrimination means.
Meritless and damaging seems to be more prudent...............

Sustainability Report Employee Goals

6% disabled
7% veteran
40% women

3. 5% indigenous

28% underrepresented groups

OP. if you're among the 650, then the list is probably right.

"If less than half of total laid off employees are black then this is still evidence of using discriminatory layoffs to increase black representation in light of yesterday’s email."

That's not how math - or evidence - works. :)

Sorry but I find this discrimination post funny. I don’t know which office you’re working at but from what I see Enbridge folks are a lot of Asians, Africans, South American with a mix of all colours and race. One of the white person I used to work said “we are the minority here”.

This discrimination lawsuit is unreal 😂

File the lawsuit. Dont contemplate. Do it for everyone. The now. The future. The present. Be the hope. You live one life. Help everyone you can. Be the person you wish was protecting you. Everyone, stand together!

“You wanna read a real history book? Read Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States. That book'll knock you on your a-s”…Will Huntino

“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves”…Howard Zinn

Strength in numbers. They won’t admit it but they need most of us to operate.

We are protected by the law and furthermore by a class action lawsuit to ensure our right of freedom from retaliation.

Isn't that called a union?

I know a handful of employees on board with a lawsuit and unionizing but are fearful of retaliation. How do we proceed without putting a target on our backs????

organize the wage worker not according to craft but according to industry; according to class and class needs; and calls upon all workers irrespective of nationality, s-x, or craft to organize into a workers’ organization, so that they may be enabled to more successfully carry on the everyday fight over wages, hours of work, etc. and prepare themselves for the day when production for profit shall be replaced by production for use

consider me on board. even if it goes nowhere, you'll be able to find out through discovery the demographic information of the 650 that were released.

company fu---d up big time once they made "D. I. E." part of the new STIP metric. now it can be said that the company is financially incentivizing the act of avoiding hiring White people. I don't care how small. it's still there on paper.

even better, the company will be have out and basically say that "diversity" is just a code word for less White people, which is the definition of discrimination. it's one thing for the company to do all the mealy mouthed kind words BS about D.I.E- we all can just tune it out and go back to knowing who is really out there in the field keeping things running. now by compensating all of us based on how much we actively exclude Whites from the hiring process they have made a big mistake.

I'm with you 100% OP. At the least this BS gets called out and a couple news articles get written. at most, you have something that results in case law.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all,
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall;
In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed,
For heaven approves of each generous deed.

All ages shall speak with amaze and applause,
Of the courage we'll show in support of our Laws;
To die we can bear, but to serve we disdain.
For shame is to Freedom more dreadful than pain

Anybody leading the charge to unionize in the United States? It seems well overdue and also the perfect time to organize and strike.

United we stand
Divided we fall

So much for all men are created equal but I guess history belongs to those who own the majority share of the narrative

Sorry indigenous people
Looks like Gregory Enbridge don’t care much about u in black history month

Luv everything bout this

Same old corporate narrative. Black vs white. “Peasants” of all colours turn against each other and lose while the 1% laugh all the way to the bank

Get this thing going and give Greggy Ebel and his lackeys a taste of their own medicine

Fox News and CNN are going to have a field day on this one

Do I smell the main topic for the 2024 presidential election?

Looks like the legal team checked out on checking corporate announcement emails. This is just sloppy on Enbridge’s part.

Wow a Class Action Suit on Layoff.com. How cow I've never would have thought this would come up. I'm sure companies don't have floors of legal eagles working on severance and layoff's to insure nothing like this would happen! You got'em now!

How can this be even remotely true. Reggie was just hired last month🙄

You know they have their own legal team look at this stuff right? They don't want discrimination lawsuits so they're going to be very careful.

" there is potential that there is also a case for mental anguish,"

Yup and that's why they cover themselves by reminding us of the employee assistance EVAP benefit we are entitled to even after being let go.

If less than half of total laid off employees are black then this is still evidence of using discriminatory layoffs to increase black representation in light of yesterday’s email.

Also, if half of laid off employees are black then it would be discrimination against them.

Corporate Enbridge messed up and they can’t undo the fact that they sent these two emails with very specific numbers within 1 week of each other. Please do not allow the dialogue to become black people vs everyone else as this is the narrative that supports Corporate Enbridge and not the 650 employees to be laid off. Also, please don’t think Corporate Enbridge is foolish enough not to layoff a handful of black people in an attempt to disguise this discrimination. In any scenario, black and non-black people are intended to be discriminated against and let go in an attempt to increase black representation and push a narrative that has nothing to do with operating a safe and profitable company.

Lets say you got 100 marbles in a bag and 97 are white and the other 3 are black.
If you randomly pull 5 marbles out of the bag, what are the chances of them all being white marbles? I'd say pretty good.

Just to be clear there is potential that there is also a case for mental anguish, pain, and suffering of all employees, including black employees that don’t get laid of but are caused undue harm this month from not knowing if they will be laid off. There are many legal precedents for this case but unfortunately most of the ones I have found only apply to wealthy executives who have much higher salaries and payouts for a civil case such as this. The facts are that within 1 week Enbridge announced an impending 5% reduction of total employees and goal to increase black employees by 2.5% of total employees and that both scenarios are intended to happen within a year. This is not an emotional case or case of privileged race but it is simple logic and math that is not in compliance with all of our civil rights.

Someone has taken but not understood any of the DEI training.