Thread regarding Enbridge Inc. layoffs

You think HR likes these changes? Maybe the VPs or BN, but not everyone else. Unfortunately money talks the loudest, not what employees want, so when the business wants HR to cut spending we all have to suffer. HR is powerless in these situations. So if you don't like it, don't blame HR, blame the execs.

BTW, a lot of us really care about doing a good job. We're often constrained by policies that are out of our control. We get treated like sh-- by our own management. You think it's hard for you to adjust to all this mess as an employee? Trying being on the other side. Not only are we trying to make the best out of really sh--ty changes, we're also enduring the same changes. We don't get raises, promotions, or any kind of thanks. That's for everyone else in the company.

Let’s also not forget the leader HR decided to open a presentation about s-xual harassment / respect in the workplace with a “joke” about his female co-presenter’s good looks.

Saying they protect people leaders is actually giving them too much credit. Lol

LOL It’s a big company so maybe it’s different elsewhere, but where I work, HR does nothing to help people leaders either. There’s basically one HR person with higher-level skills to support multiple departments and they seem to spend most of their time rolling out policy changes which they seem to disagree with as much as anyone else. They basically pay this person 6 figures to read scripts some higher-level HR turd came up with, as they seem to have stripped this person of any decision making power or ability to influence the c-ap they have to roll-out. The rest of what I see from HR are low-paid drones that answer the Hotlines and whatnot... and people leaders get the same bad service as everyone else. It’s not like we have a special number we can call.

You should have known that Enb wasn't going to eat the increased cost of providing benefits.

Once you change your perception of HR and what their role is, it will all make sense. HR is there to protect the bosses and lie for them. It is your fault for thinking they are there to keep things fair and just and honest. Welcome to the Corporate world

The plan is still good as far as plans go. However, it’s definitely quite a bit worse than the last Spectra plan, and I don’t see how HR can look us in the eye and say otherwise. There are a few improvements - eg, money for psychologist ...and eye check-ups are covered separately and don’t have to come out of the allowance for glasses - which might be helpful for glasses-wearing people who need psychologists... lol. For the vast majority, however, those small wins will be greatly offset by the reduced coverage for dental and pr-scrip-ions. Not to mention that it sounds like most people had to use the majority of their 2.5% ESP match for Flex Credits, whereas we used to have enough Flex Credits to buy a week of vacation AND to take Spectra’s 5% match in stock.

This seems like very basic math to me... how the f--- does HR keep claiming this plan is as good as the old one when you look at it “overall”? I’d love to see a practical example where someone has ended up ahead in this scheme. I did the math for myself and I’m over $7,000 worse off per year than I was before from lower coverage and the ESP match changes. And that does not include factoring that merit was less than inflation last year, meaning I got a pay cut... and that I’ll be working 30 mins for free each day come January.

As annoying as this all is, it’s made worse by these a--hole messages we keep getting from corporate and HR claiming compensation is still basically the same overall and even better for “many”. I think that’s called gaslighting, which is appropriate given the industry we are in.