A year and a half ago, many employees were demoted in order to keep their jobs but their pay was frozen for a year. Come to find out, HR never took the money away so you have Supervisors and less making more money than any of their peers! Why don't they right that wrong and maybe save a couple jobs? They obviously weren't strong enough in their position to deserve the job or the pay!
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To the one who said that the cuts should have been for everyone - you are right on point. Cuts should have been from top to bottom, left to right. What happened was different and some people felt alienated and I know of dozens of people who left because they felt left out. If there is really a crisis or hard times we should all feel we are in it altogether.
With all that has happened over the last three or so years, I can’t help but think that Enbridge is being run by complete idiots.
Yes, they saved hundred of millions of compensation dollars on a few hundred people, and now they wonder why morale is low! And these changes were not even consistent across the organization because some areas have front line leaders as Supervisors, and some have Managers. I guess they figured everyone would be "still glad to have a job". Compensation should have been cut for all levels, not just the Managers to Supervisors. And now they are now cutting compensation for only VPs. Does the BOD think this will increase the morale? Other Calgary companies like CNRL cut base pay across the whole organization. Sure, people complained but at least they felt they were in it together.
Yes the managers that got demoted to supervisors didn't get a base pay cut, but they lost 15% LTIP and 5% STIP, but their role stayed the same, or in some cases increased in responsibility, so it wasn't a real level demotion, it was purely a pay cut that was all under the guise of organizational effectiveness. AM saved 20% or more with the multiplier on a single level of the organization that has the largest impact to company morale of any other level.
I don’t know if this is the case or not, but it seems as though HR has given Enbridge’s people leaders special training over the last two or three years on how to demotivate and demoralize their direct reports.
I remember when they acted like humans. Now they act like robots. There is nothing right about this picture.
Enbridge’s ELT members, along with most of the VPs, certainly do give the impression that they resent (maybe hate is a better word?) the company’s employees.
The employees were unfairly and unethically demoted.
The salaries stayed the same only because the company couldn’t one-sidedly break the salary contracts. AM would have decreased salaries if he could have.
It was just another idiotic and desperate attempt on behalf of our half-witted ELT to demoralize people.
With compensation going down and getting treated badly I don’t know why anyone would stay. Unless you’re lazy of course. Don’t forget that inflation is running at 2-3% eating away at total earnings.
#fakenews. Managers comp included 20% Stip base and Ltip of 15%. Supervisor is Stip 15%. Responsibility and expectations hasn’t changed. Watch for those folks to depart early ‘19 after there last ltip payout rolls in dec ‘18 along with whatever AM hands out for stip this year.
So people were demoted and are still getting paid the same? Are you serious? No wonder Enbridge is in financial trouble!
Confirmed to be true. Disappointing. Why did they bother, didn't save money and now they do less.