Share any updates you may have about PG&E layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?

The VSP program is over with less than 500 people taking it. The CEO stated that the target reduction was over 2800 employees. When and how will 2300 people lose their jobs? Do you think that another VSP round is on the way?

CEO announced a need to cut jobs. Says there will be more info in coming weeks. Talked of a voluntary separation. Heard rumors the goal is to cut 2,800 positions. We’ve stopped almost all hiring since last year.

Anyone else applying for the VSP offer? Is it enough to justify an early retirement?

My fiancé was just hired on with 316 employees.. within a month… to date, all of them just got laid off…. Yeah whatever is going on… they will hire and lay people off

What would happen if PG&E customers had Solar panels put on top of their home to save money on their electric bills and in their pockets.

Laying off workers because of the Dixie Fire will save you money and help put back money for the past fires will show good faith.

I'm worried that PG&E will use this opportunity to get rid of whoever they want, especially older employees who make more money, with no consequences and smaller severance. We all know it will get bad, but I'm afraid it might get much worse than many... —  read more 

Q&A kinda thread - what's happening next?

Is there going to be any reorg or PG&E Layoffs in 2019?

Is this going to be an interesting year as it relates to PG&E Layoffs 2020? Any news or rumors?

Dead or alive?

With the Tubbs fire back on the plate, will this big financial hit affect workers, pensions and layoffs?

To exit bankruptcy PGE has to submit a reorganization plan. Does anyone have ideas on what the new CEO will propose? Is the sale of Gas still in the plate? What about layoffs?

Its also rumored that they will eliminate all the contractors in Gas Operations by the end of the year. They will also reduce the management pool, especially the individuals supervising 5 or less employees. They will also not back fill any position... —  read more 

PG&E will lay-off contractors first. Then it will tighten the belt on PG&E employees as it shrinks its best to income ratio. Watch and see.

How many Small companies declare BK ? (quite a few as a Percentage of small companies) How many Large companies declare BK ? (Not too many as a Percentage of large companies) How Many companies declare BK TWICE in a 10-15 year span. Well we soon may... —  read more 

I do not want to be laid off. Yet, there are many rumors about potential job cuts here in San Francisco.

Once this was a great place to work at, but in the last several years that has changed completely. The office conditions at PG&E today are truly horrible. They are packing us in offices to the point you can't hear yourself think, stacking us in the... —  read more 

PG&E has been going down for years thanks to its incompetent management and CEO. When will people realize that outsourcing jobs to cheaper countries is not the solution to all of your problems? Of course, most of this is due to the fact that instead... —  read more 

What do we know so far? Let's consolidate in this thread.

they have announced today that there will be restructuring in gas operations tomorrow. They already layoff some directors last month and its expected that they hit mangers and supervisors tomorrow. Also some notable people got layoff today. This is... —  read more 

Starting this thread just in case someone wanted to contribute info as it relates to March 2017 layoffs. The first pass and cuts back in late 2016 and Jan 2017 were poorly covered in the media, and we may want to use this space to share info. In... —  read more 

Now McKinsey is here and planning the next round of layoffs. Anyone familiar with "Office Space"? Yeah, I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you to do the work of 10 people now... and since you were already doing the work of 5 people, it won't be too... —  read more 

actually it was announced 8-9 officers (sr. level) were laid off, not only support support. in order to lay off union staff, they have to deal with union first... maybe this is something already happening and in negotiation.

Due to poor management decisions, expenses suddenly are reported to be out of control and instead of letting go leaders...it's going to be a mass reductions of union employees and support staff.

The worker is silent. After: 450 layoffs, 800 contractors axed, 70 jobs sent to Indians. training replacements. 300 mil saved (per year). customer service quality to drop 80%. = 180 IT jobs cut, 40% of IT jobs go to India. TCS/Tata grabs the lion... —  read more 

pg&e protects its employees like nobody else. occasionally there will be a small round of targeted layoffs (like the poster below - he notes 2 layoffs) but in general the company does not like letting people go

What is the likelihood of PG&E layoffs in San Francisco in 2016? Please let me know if you have any information.

http://companies.bizjournals.com/profile/pg-e/130794/?mkt=sanfrancisco

PG&E cutting IT support jobs and outsourcing the work... There is so much waste at PG&E that if they just clean up all the stuff that is unsupported and application running that aren't even being used. How do you outsource a Power Grid to a 3RD world... —  read more 

I never thought that we'll see this but we might have layoffs here in San Francisco.

Do you know what are top three locations in terms of employee count? Also, how many work at San Francisco?

PG&E protect his employees, who protect PG&E,. pG'&E one day will have to cut cost because of it's invester and they are losing money with all the fires. 6 years in a row.

With just six months to California wildfire season, PG&E says it has ramped down its workforce, reducing the number of contractors in recent weeks. EWG says PG&E laid off at least 800 contract employees over the past few weeks, including many... —  read more