Black & Veatch has, over the course of decades, made it known that layoffs are preferred and billing to overhead is absolutely not allowed because employee training is viewed as a sunk cost. The irony is that it is only a sunk cost BECAUSE of layoffs. The accusation of layoffs at Black & Veatch is believable on its face. Besides, this time it is true. The layoffs in November 2017 happened in the Water Division. Black & Veatch used to layoff at the end of each quarter. They have switched to monthly rotating layoffs. It depends on which business unit didn’t make the arbitrary sliding scale the executives make. You know, the one with the +/-1. I know this, and I haven’t worked at B&V for eight years. You can actually see the layoffs in how B&V HR posts jobs. They haven’t hired anybody above a engineer 3 in twenty years.
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You can not make a statement like this and give the details as to division and which jobs.
This is like posting fake news.