Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Interestong conversation - about 3 years ago, when all this EEI/Yiel started, our manager sent us an email about why we needed to work 44 hour a week. Soon - we were all called in by HR and asked to delete it. We were also given a confidentiality agreement to ensure it would not come out. I am glad some people are paying attention and the truth is coming out. The email discuss the financial benefit for Honeywell. I left Honeywell a year ago, but do feel sad for how they have taking a great company to the ground.

You are wrong. This is not defrauding the government. Hours are billed directly to projects and projects are quoted in man hours. It doesn't matter if you have 4 employees working a project for 40 hours per week or 2 employees working 80 hours per week. It's the same exact cost to the government. The rate a companies charges on a project is mostly fixed. It doesn't matter if those hours are overtime or not, It's still the same charge. Now if a company is telling you to charge a project for work you did not perform or is purposefully overrunning a project, that is defrauding the government.

But they can't legally make you work extra. If they are actually demanding you work more hours then get it in writing and go to court. As far as I understand it's only been suggested at my site, not required. Then again, it was always suggested to work 44 hours a week but I haven't done that in 10 years unless I thought it was necessary, not arbitrary.

The average cost you mention is way-way off; if you find out the real hourly cost charged to external customers (or even to an internal customer for engineering services) you will start complaining about the salary you are getting (and you should be)........

The dirt is coming out and this is so true, but we are all too scare to openly say anything.

I agree - the US Government needs to look into this practice. My manager just told my EEI is too low. I need to work at least 5 hours extra per week to catch up by the end of the year. EEI stands for Engineering Effort Index or Engineering Efficiency Index, but they just change it recently and are calling it Exempt Engineering Index to push off suspicions.