Over the past 5 years Honeywell's profits have increased by more than 150%. There is no justification for forcing workers to take not just 1 but 2 week-long unpaid furloughs in a 7 month period. Honeywell has breached its employment contract with its workers by forcing unpaid furloughs contrary to the agreed upon terms of their employment contracts e.g. Annual Salary ÷ 52 weeks. Additionally, Honeywell's cancellation or reduction of earned bonuses due to "austerity" reasons is also unjustified & constitutes wage theft, breach of contract & breach of faith. Honeywell's huge year-over-year profits demonstrate there is zero justification for forcing unpaid furloughs & denying workers their earned bonuses. If there are any great labor attorneys out there this is your siren call. If you work for Honeywell I urge you to find employment elsewhere & sell all of your stock. You will still be entitled to lost wages if a Class Action lawsuit is filed.
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Please be aware that these people care for none of you. I was poisoned for over 14,000 hrs. working in a Mercury Fill Room producing thermostats. In a 8 hr. shift I produced 7,200 switches. In this 8 hr. shift Honeywell profited enough to pay me for over 14,000 hrs. of Mercury exposure. This has effected me for the last 34 yrs. and I haven't received a penny and they have not accepted responsibility and need to be held accountable. I was never offered gloves, respirator even once though the group leaders were given mask for their protection. It seems as though they sit in their mansions laughing while I suffer to function on a day to day basis. Run as fast as you can.
LOL! Meet D-mber of 'D-mb and D-mber' fame.
If that's such a viable plan, why has nothing happened since this was posted in 2016?
Honeywell FMT recently terminated my employment "For Cause" just after my probationary period was up. They claimed Time Sheet violations. So be it.
They also said i did not badge in for a week. Big lie. You can't get into the facility without badging in or shadowing someone. Why would I not badge in the front and then badge in to the inner areas? Also, they claimed I worked OT on a Saturday when I was uncleared and still a Trainee.
They love to get the low-hanging fruit, but they don't want to go after those who are really the offenders. That's probably because Honeywell doesn't want to address the Elephant in the room.
First, they try to close the barn door AFTER the horses have left. Namely, they don't investigate events until AFTER it has happened. if they think their Rent-a-Cop force that is paid less than everyone else in the facility is working, they need to think again. They do nothing in real-time. There Surveillance System is for looking at an event in retrospect. The NNSA and DOE are not getting their monies worth. It's no wonder the Chinese know EVERYTHING about our Arsenal.
Second, I walked past Employees looking at Clothing, NRHA web sites, printing their personal Roofing Bids on Company / Government printers. Sure, you can't actually BUY anything online, but you can still look.
The Supervisors either know and turn a blind eye or the Employees close their Web Browsers as they walk by. Not a hard thing to do given that the Supervisors only go and observe their areas once, maybe twice, a day. They walk through, ask if you have a question or problem, and then disappear. Otherwise they are on a Skype call or doing something else, oblivious to what is going on in their Department.
They also target older Employees who are in the Union. They are not friendly toward older Employees. Their culture is slanted toward younger Employees they can mold. They have Internships, Young Engineers clubs, etc. NOTHING for older Employees. If you try to do something, you get dissuaded.
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i work at honeywells call center in san luis potosi mexico and i am not buddy buddy with anyone in management. i have noticed that i have been treated like c-ap. i am en ex veteran from the us navy. if anyone know anything about attention to detail the way the navy trains people to follow it you would know that things flow much better when attention to detail is observed and you cant crash aircraft and take the valuable lives of the pilots or workers in an area where attention to detail isnot observed.anyway i have been with the call center for almost two years. i was forced to stay off work for two weeks twice and all of it was due to emotional and psychological harm that i had gone through while working under unqualified management, lousy supervisors, lack of acknowledment of a job well done and having my hard work graded and supervised by people that barely speak english in an english call center also most of management and quality assurance has little or knowledge when it comes to quality customer service and correct procedures to follow when helping customers with technical questions. managment is no more than a bunch of incompetent bullies here in our site i am in the process of bringing all of this up to headquarters in minesotta and am more than likely going to move on with my life i would like to see some heads roll before i leave this hell hole
Honeywell FM&T, KC-MO treats their minorities and older workers like crap. If you do not play golf and drink beer with the "big boys" you are not going to survive. Pretty sad when you hear upper management say "I have to have my job and if I do not do what they say I will be fired."
This year, any new person with 6-10 years of warehouse experience were hired for $16-$20 an hour. Existing employees with the same experience already employed by Honeywell are not included. In a conference call with Human Resources Dan Sheppard, he stated that the legal dept. said that the 200 people like me working for Honeywell with the same experience for much less hourly wage were of no consequence. Unbelievable that new hire work experience is regarded, but existing employees are not considered. This seems egregious.
Anyone recommend a good employment attorney?
Not to mention the strong arm pulling for overtime before and after furloughs.
"Honeywell has breached its employment contract with its workers"? What contract? I've worked for HON for 30 years and never signed a contract. Are you referring to a union site? I'm sure that no represented employees were furloughed like to OP described. I agree with the comments about huge exec bonuses and corporate greed etc. But your job is a daily choice that you make. Take it or leave it.
I worked for Honeywell in many positions during my long tenure...technical to manager in aerospace group. They use all the dirty tricks to push people out. I refuse to do this as a manager. Eventually they found two weak proxy to lie about .my performance to terminate me. They tried to destroy me emotionally. One dirty company. They maintained a hostile work environment.
Please gather every employee that has faced this injustice and file class action lawsuit against Honeywell.
I'm in!
I really feel for you guys. This continues to happen across corporate America. Please seek out a good employment counsel, but be aware that if you sign the waiver your ability to sue is greatly diminished.
Companies count on you needing the money from the severance to meet your obligations, so they tie the waiver to getting the severance. I don't know your circumstances, but I'd doubt that Honeywell employees actually have employment agreements (other that executives). If you don't, you're likely an "at will" employee which gives them substantial ability to jerk you around as much as they want. I'm pulling for you, but don't put all your eggs into the "I'm going to sue" basket. Best of luck.
I know for a fact that legal was concerned about Class Action Lawsuits after the ACS layoffs last month. Not because of contract issues, but age issues. Rightfully so, since 74 of the 80 employees laid off were over 40 years of age (a protected class). However, If you signed the separation agreement after the "reduction in workforce" you cannot be a part of a CAL. I signed it just to get out of Honeyhell! It has been the most toxic work environment I've ever been in. I just needed that relationship to end so I can move on to better, healthier things in my life.
How about they do not call it a merit increase if it is based on future or current forecasts. We are reviewed 2X year against the goals rolled down from corporate. If we do not meet these goals you can be assured you will be trouble, but meet or exceed and no raise becuase of a current down turn? We signed these goals at the begining of the year and if met it is understood or implied that a wage increase would happen. This alone is part of the breach of contract. There are terms layed out and agreed upon, that constitutes a contract.
Top level corporate greed is at the root of the steady decline and ultimately disappearance of engineering and manufacturing in America and other developed countries. Lou Dobbs predicted it for many years and it appears that we are at a tipping point, when a confused electoral crowd is ready to show its anger in the wrong way, by electing Trump president, or forcing Brexit for the same wrong reasons. These are just the first forms of mass revolt using a random, opportunistic target, not the real one: globalization, which is driven and effected by large private organizations like Honeywell, which in turn easily control governments and operate way beyond constraints of EU or other trade agreements.
In the meantime, for those looking to external jobs, you will find out that your total compensation might be about 50-60% of what other companies are paying, especially if you have marketable skills....If you are looking into internal jobs, you might have to be demoted; new jobs at your skill level are mostly posted for a lower band, and will remain unfilled....
I agree with the 2 replies. Not mentioned are the HUGE bonuses executives get for meeting cost cutting goals at our expense. Also the perks of stock options allowing one exec to see a $2M+ PROFIT in a single day by buying at discount and selling the same day at stock price of the day. And I have seen similar but other insiders. Public information....look for it.
I signed an agreement which says I can't disparage or sue the company, but I've never seen a contract they won't break. They do not operate in good faith.
I'm not litigious, but Dave needs a pay cut, not the employees.
Anybody have any leads on this? I'd be on board if this gains momentum. I'm sick of being forced to work 12 hour days including weekends - forced to pay $2,500 of my hard earned $ into the PAC every year & forced to take week long, unpaid furloughs every 6 months when I'm already putting in 80 hour weeks. Not to mention bonuses that are paid at a fraction of what was actually earned & year over year of no pay raises. Cote & the rest of his mafia have no shame.