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Surrealplaces said:
I suspect there won't be a ton of white collar jobs being moved to the refinery. Most likely some operational mgmt jobs, while a handful of executives stay here and the rest go away altogether.
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It's not just in Calgary either, they're doing aggressive outsourcing to India and consolidating management in Europe and NA to a few central hubs.

With context of the layoff and essentially exiting Calgary, this donation was so odd. https://www.sait.ca/news/media-releases/2025/09/imperial-energy-innovation-centre-opens
 
Mountain Man said:
Shitty for all the white collar employees who are going to have their office moved to a refinery in Edmonton! lol
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Surrealplaces said:
I suspect there won't be a ton of white collar jobs being moved to the refinery. Most likely some operational mgmt jobs, while a handful of executives stay here and the rest go away altogether.
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From what I’ve heard about 30 jobs will be moved to the refinery, and about 2 dozen will stay in Calgary. Of the 900 jobs they mentioned about 700 are in Calgary and will be phased out over a two year period. What isn’t mentioned in the article is that a number of jobs that are transitioning from permanent to contractor positions and will be work from home. Basically the headcount of permanent jobs goes down, but the number of actual jobs doesn’t go down as much.
 
Interesting. This isn't the first time Imperial/Esso has done this. I remember back in the the early 2000's reading articles about Esso laying off 1000 people. Esso was one of my clients back then, and basically they were laid off, but many came back to work as a contractor. Some of the people were there for quite a while after the 'layoff. In this case they're doing a major downscale, and shedding a large office space.

I get why the do it though. Contractor headcount isn't the same as permanent employee headcount.
 
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Surrealplaces said:
Interesting. This isn't the first time Imperial/Esso has done this. I remember back in the late 90's possibly the early 2000's reading articles about Esso laying off 1000 people. Esso was one of my clients back then, and basically they were laid off, but came back to work as a contractor. Some of the people were there for quite a while after the 'layoff.

I get why the do it though. Contractor headcount isn't the same as permanent employee headcount.
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Ya plus can bring back on at a lower salary and no benefits. Especially if it's advertised as temp with possible extensions
 
This is something large companies do. Announce some layoffs so that it makes it into the newspapers and investors and shareholders can see it) meanwhile behind the scenes they hire people back as contractors or part-time.
 
Chowda7 said:
ca.finance.yahoo.com

Alberta plans to support proposal for new oil pipeline, Globe and Mail reports

The plan is to draft an application along with an early estimate to submit to the federal government's new Major Projects Office, the report said, adding that a final route has not yet been decided. Enbridge, South Bow and Trans Mountain will work with the government and the Alberta Machine...
ca.finance.yahoo.com ca.finance.yahoo.com
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Got some names to name. Guess we'll see how long it takes to actually get some kind of proposal in front of the office for approval.
 
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