Westinghouse Employee Reviews about "layoff"

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Due to the down turn in the nuclear industry there had been constant changes within the company and layoffs quite frequently

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With the threat of looming layoffs in March .. the company needs good hard working people not slackers because they have union seniority.

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I've been with Westinghouse for a very long time - it has always had extremely poor management. I was with the company as it imploded in the mid to late 90s and what is happening now is very similar, in my opinion, to what occurred during that time. Unfortunately, the current management may 'win' for the worst I have experienced. I somehow made it through all of the massive layoffs and business unit sell offs in the 90s. I don't think the Westinghouse nuclear business has truly been financially healthly since even before that time but, like me, they have somehow managed to survive. It's not clear to me that the company will make it through this latest financial fiasco. I questioned Toshiba's business prowess when they paid $5.4B for us - clearly now an extremely poor business decision on their part (Toshiba wrote off $2.4B of that purchase price in 2015 I believe). It is somewhat difficult to know how Westinghouse has truly financially performed since that purchase (since we are no longer on the stock exchange, any financial numbers we see are rather limited and are presented to us by management). Because of my distrust of the management, I don't have much faith in the limited numbers they have shown us. I was always personally quite certain that we would see large financial losses with the new builds in China and the US - we still do not know the extent of those losses. I am equally certain that as those units start up, there will be significant issues which will further have major negative financial impact. I did not forsee the Toshiba accounting scandal or this CB&I mess. To summarize, I believe 2017-2018 will be disastrous years financially - I am not certain how we will survive.

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Never felt secure. Constant restructuring and layoffs.

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very political - typical of corporate No job security - I was warned when I was first hired that WEC likes to do massive layoffs BEWARE (both contract and full time!!!!!) Disrespectful to employees

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I've had to withstand a bankruptcy and multiple rounds of layoffs due to lack of work at times. The company may be around for a long time but there are fluctuations in available work due to the economy and political influence on the nuclear industry.

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- Upper management doesn't care about employees and puts blame on them. Even though upper management is what led us to bankruptcy - No promotions and few raises. Multiple individuals were submitted for a promotion and it got all the approvals but sat in HR with no end in site - ZERO work life balance. You are on vacation? Who cares you get phone calls. You are sick? Who cares you get phone calls. - All the good people are gone! Since bankruptcy all the top employees have jumped ship. And there hasn't been any replacements for them in multiple groups. Some groups have lost 5+ employees and there has been no replacements. - Reorganization. With the new owner we have seen a lot of reorg within the organization and its not for the best. Groups have been combined and removed unnecessarily and top managers have gone from managing 30+ people to managing 3. Why aren't you supporting your top managers? - Layoffs and more layoffs. Just when you think the layoffs are over, they come back a month or two later. Avoid at all cost. It seems like they are dwindling the business until its only nuclear refueling and they will outsource everything else. Your job might be gone in 2-5 years.

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Senior leadership installed by Toshiba doesn't care about anyone. Secret layoffs along with arming the guard force are just a few of the things the current management structure has done.

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Employees (including engineers) are in constant fear of being fired as management attempts to reduce costs by forcing people out without layoffs. Safe to say they toe the line with some employment laws. Additionally, management focuses on the metrics that make them look good, not the ones that explain why the company is failing to deliver its projects. Westinghouse also continues to defer raises and shutdown key projects as it shovels money to keep the toshiba dumpster fire burning.

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They do not pay competitively, although they state that they do. They do not give raises or inflation adjustments. There is no flexible time or work life balance, and expect you to work 'Casual Overtime' frequently. You will not gain much technical experience here, as they don't know what they are doing and farm most of the real technical work out to other companies. Their business is failing and they will probably be having massive layoffs in the near future. Their is a very poor ethics and safety culture here and they definitely use retaliation tactics so beware.