Hourly and salaried employees on reduced (non-paid) hours for the next 90 days. Yep. Things are turning around.
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What do you mean take off I day per pay period without pay? In MFG Carllton Texas?
I'd like to comment on this first comment.
"Are there employment laws?"(Paraphrased)
Yes, yet attorneys write the laws, implement the laws and if you feel a law is broken by a company.....well get ready to spend money on an attorney, if they'll even take the case, and a few years to get a decision.. You must prove that the law was broken even if it blatantly was.
I've been told if you want to take a large corporation to Court bring a Gorilla as an Attorney.
In a nutshell, yes the laws exist to protect employees but it's more like a suggestion and you cannot just point a finger to use the law. YOU must prove it! Remember, innocent until proven guilty.
Lastly, to get my Expanded severance, I had to sign a waiver to receive it. Everyone in my layoff crowd was over 50. The waver in another nutshell was I won't bring any action against them. At that point after signing MY RIGHTS away I received my Expanded severance. If I did not sign I receive nothing and was walked out the door.
Essentially, the laws set forth to protect employee rights are very hard and costly to use.
Welcome to your Congress being mostly all attorneys. Nothing against attorneys, just making a reality check here.
The unions are just as bad as the company's now.
Yeah your right the union is great with it's crony ways and democratic ties
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kylesmith/2013/02/21/detroit-gave-unions-keys-to-the-city-and-now-nothing-is-left/#75b1e5fcd922
4aiv - the union doesnt exist for the company , the union represents the employees interests, because the folks in charge of the company are focused on putting money in their own pockets, and as weve observed they will not hesitate to cut staff or import labor to get that bonus.
JgpdG69-2oty yeah the union did such a great job for General Motors
I bet a lot of you whiners are anti-Union as well. Well, this is what you get when you have no bargaining chip. Tough luck, s---ers.
They force me to take every weekend off without pay, so I feel your pain. That's 4 whole days per pay period that I am not getting paid for.
Ya'know other men could say something such as that and you would dismiss it as just so much rubbish, but coming from him ? well you know he really means it and it carries so much weight.
We can take comfort in those words of our fine captain, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and at least now we know it is not a train.
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so you see the benefits in getting the low paid H1b visa holding turds into the business model, politicians are happy and ceo's are hapoy
Huge corporation's like Halliburton have bought and payed enough lawmakers to stack the deck against the men and women who are layed off.
Even if you go to court and win. The back salary is prorated.
The American working person is nailed .
Salaried people have to take off 1 week per quarter. Hourly people have to take off 1 day per pay period (2 weeks).
In the state of Texas, if you're an exempt employee, if you work ANY portion of a week, they must pay you your full salary for that week. How are they structuring this furlough? Working every other week? Out completely for the 90 days?
Schlumberger started furloughs at the beginning of the year for salaried employees in the US. I don't know about globally though.
I heard it was HCT globally.
Now would be an excellent time to start looking for another job. I would recommend anything out side of oil and manufacturing.
Is there no employment law in America or it might be that case that halliburton dictate the way the treat staff