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CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-4276221167840253482018-07-09T04:01:00.001-07:002018-07-09T04:01:32.546-07:00Variable Compensation Plan - Really Fair ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>L</b></span>et's
face it, the company success, its margin is less and less correlated to
the employee success, and their variable compensation achievements.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Compensation gates introduced last year have been even more aggressive in this disconnection.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the moment, lots of employees struggle to get the final numbers from scamea, but some have -- And they're very upset.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We propose to collectively share those numbers in order to have more ground in expressing our feedback to management.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Willing to join us ?</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's talk - Contact us on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/OracleCfdt">@OracleCfdt</a>.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Read More : <a href="http://www.hrworks-inc.com/article/do-variable-compensation-plans-employees-really-work">HR-Works Do Variable Compensation Plan work ?</a></span></span></div>
CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-50524718018438479812018-06-04T12:21:00.002-07:002018-06-04T13:02:58.677-07:00Territory Acceptance - Really Fair ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>he "acceptance" Oracle Management carterpillar has started moving towards a massive attempts to have all employees surrender to the FY19 T&C, Territories, Quota assignments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a very rare moment where your management really expects you to be on time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Large teams in France have entered into resistance on this process, once again call "acceptance", which <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has been confirmed as</span> illegal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CSM, Presales, CSR really have concerns about FY18 compensation. Why would they jump towards FY19 ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> You, i</span>sn't it time for a real good conversation with your <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mana<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ger </span></span>about the SMART model ?</span><br />
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CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-5068994682055052002018-05-30T14:08:00.000-07:002018-05-30T14:56:35.989-07:00Fair Sales Management - How about the Uplift transparency ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Uplift, did you say Uplift ?</span></b><br /><br />This sales target processing has been implemented for years within Oracle and other companies (<a href="http://insidespin.com/sales-compensation.php">reference here</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This process ought to secure a manager's hierarchy achievements based on his team individual statistical unavailabilities (resignations,illness, maternity leave, deal conversion rates, dismissal...).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, the increase in employee "rotation" and the pressure on sales achievements, generates an increase in the Uplift practice -- Leading to even more people leaving the company.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's have an example :</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><i>Peter C Sales VP receives a 300 M$ Quota.<br />He's eager to go to the excellence Club. He wants to fund a new dedicated sales Hunt group without impacting his P&L. He expects from this an additional cost of 30 M$ and chooses a 10% uplift for his regular sales teams.</i></span><i><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He distributes 110 M$ to his 3 direct <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s</span>ales directors.</span></span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Viktor R, Sales Director, is a fair guy, he takes no uplift he distributes 110 M$ - No Uplift.<br />Brian <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">M. </span>Sales Manager receives 20 M$ - He knows he's got 2 people leaving, one pregnancy. He's quite unsure to have an approval for hiring in before some time. he over distributes quotas by 20%, so 24 M$ target to his team.<br />So an individual in Brian's team will receive 1.2*1*1.1 overquota distribution.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Going through those maths, you may overdistribute very quickly at a large scale, securing the company results and margin.<br /><br />And what if a manager takes more than 20% uplift - Who knows, who checks, who claims ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>"Oracle Treats its employees fairly" - <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Should<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">n't </span></span>this be proven through transparency in the Compensation Systems ?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shouldn't you ask the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GIC te<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ms </span></span></span>?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Should the FY19 T&C really be accepted </span> before having a serious discussion on <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">what is a fair management practice ?</span></b></span></div>
CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-56268356851539338372018-05-15T15:33:00.000-07:002018-05-18T03:17:54.480-07:00Oracle - The Right for Smart and Fair Compensation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>he unfair compensation feeling from the sales/presales workforce is a growing movement in multiple countries<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">W<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">atchout the following <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">threads :</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://oraclecommissionslawsuit.com/">- US Class Action</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/oracle-korea-workers-union-strike-over-unfair-wage-policies">- South Korea 3 days Strike action </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- France (<a href="https://stbeehive.oracle.com/content/dav/st/FR_CFDT_EXTERNAL/Public%20Documents/Presentations/2018/Remuneration-TC/4%20-%20Pool%20Plan%20Taux%20de%20paiement.pdf">Pool plans</a>,<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://stbeehive.oracle.com/content/dav/st/FR_CFDT_EXTERNAL/Public%20Documents/NewsLetter/2018/04/Sales.png">2017 Sales Ach</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://stbeehive.oracle.com/content/dav/st/FR_CFDT_EXTERNAL/Public%20Documents/NewsLetter/2018/04/Sales.png">ievements</a>, <a href="https://stbeehive.oracle.com/content/dav/st/FR_COMITE_ENTREPRISE_ORCF/Public%20Documents/Presentations/2018/2018-02-Solution%20Specialists%20Letter%2012%20february%2018.pdf">Grievance Letter (English)</a>)</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gated pool plans, Clawbacks, replans, poor territory assignment, Universal Cloud Credits <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">can help in sustaining the company margin</span>, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but </span>leave the Employees in deep troubles regarding his own compensation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The US Class action states <i>"By reducing and withholding commissions in this fashion, Oracle’s commission policies and practices violated numerous California Labor Code requirements and caused damages of over $150 million to class members."</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-diving-save/">Diving Save program</a> is helping a very few number of employees getting a quick increase of their base salary. Few "Top Talents" are retained, when most of their col<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">l</span>egues loose a large part of their variable compensation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And how about you<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and your collegues ? <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Willing to share some info <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">?</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contact us on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/cfdtoracle">@cfdtoracle</a> </span></div>
CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-72276054256469413582018-03-23T14:15:00.001-07:002018-03-24T14:10:22.090-07:00Firing Older workers -- only happening at IBM ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may find interesting to read this breaking news regarding IBM - A Grey Hair Exit Strategy ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>"AS IBM TRAINED ITS SIGHTS on younger workers, it also took steps to change the way it dealt with those who’d spent many years on the job. It embraced a legal strategy that made it much easier for the company to dismiss older workers, and to do so in ways that minimized legal consequences and largely avoided public attention."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/">The full article is here, from Propublica</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Something that would never happen with Oracle ?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Or maybe this is already happening : Read this on <a href="https://www.thelayoff.com/t/SjOXQ9U#replies">thelayoff.com</a> </span></div>
CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-44742553357734803402018-03-02T14:30:00.000-08:002018-03-02T15:02:58.400-08:00Oracle Employee Voices Raising<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>W</b></span>here can we find employee representatives within Oracle ?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">European Union and its <a href="https://my.oracle.com/site/emeasc/businessoperations/salescommunications/AboutOracleEMEA/EWC/index.html">European Works Council</a>, covering Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Solvakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most of those country are also running Local Works Councils, and can sustain the kick-off of new Local Works Councils.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The last <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">EWC </span>Annual Meeting <a href="https://my.oracle.com/site/emeasc/businessoperations/salescommunications/AboutOracleEMEA/EWC/cnt2678126.pdf">Communique is available here</a>. A new meeting will occur in March 2018.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Outside EU, we can find Employee representation in <a href="http://english.etnews.com/20171017200001">South Korea</a>, and many other countries soon ?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's all agree there's much to do.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You want to build more organized employee feedback to management ?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Contact us on <a href="https://twitter.com/cfdtoracle">twitter</a> - We're reactivating our English speaking line NOW !</span></span><br />
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CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-20165201523683786502015-09-05T16:05:00.001-07:002015-09-05T16:23:23.020-07:00Dev & MW RIF <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span>s reported by the <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/04/oracle_reportedly_lays_off_java_evangelists/">register</a>, and multiple tweeter feeds, last week seems to have been final to few hundreds employees in the Dev/MW Organisation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reports mention impacts on <a href="http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=81271">Java (with huge discussions again regarding the product strategy)</a> , MW Products, Technical Writers positions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well... Back a few days ago, <a href="https://people.us.oracle.com/pls/oracle/f?p=8000:3:3416130930741::::PERSON_ID:630451083318672">the organization still reported 30800 Employees</a>; </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the very same time, 10 Development VPs have also been impacted. Linked-in status shows some of them already acting in other companies (Verifone, Medallia). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Others, now show "Open to opportunities". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read More : <a href="https://twitter.com/kcpeppe/status/639787715563769856">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://officewall.com/">Officewall</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/cfdtoracle">tweet-cfdtoracle</a>, </span></div>
CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-48595912436053034322015-07-12T14:59:00.001-07:002015-07-12T15:07:20.196-07:00Oracle Software Support Chile - The End<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Friday Morning - An all hands meeting to announce this is the end of a <a href="http://oraclenz.org/?p=235">6 years story</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This support center had 120 employees, very professional and happy to help.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 62 of them have already joined the very new <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/394844867384539/">Ex Oracle Chile Facebook group</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We're very sorry for this, happening all of a sudden- <b>You'll be missed</b>.</span></span><br />
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CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-46904720680549350302015-07-10T15:47:00.004-07:002015-07-10T15:47:49.753-07:00Oracle Software Support in Chile ceased today<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Y</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ou will have problems finding an official annoucement regarding <a href="http://oraclenz.org/?p=235">the end of this story</a>.<br />The communication plan is tight, and all communications have been secured by conference calls only.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However, you may see by yourself the numerous <a href="http://myforums.oracle.com/jive3/search.jspa?threadID=&q=%28%28farewell++%22hasta+pronto%22++%22goodbye%22%29+and+chile+and+support%29&objID=c1&dateRange=last7days&userID=&numResults=30&rankBy=9">goodbye/farewell messages sent here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Despite the very sudden announcement to the impacted employees, the goodbye messages are very kind, and positive about these past years. You'll appreciate this one : </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Good luck with my SRs!!!" </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Good luck to you, dear collegues, and as you say "Hasta Pronto".</span><br />
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CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-25647558447565194332014-12-09T15:26:00.000-08:002014-12-09T15:33:07.685-08:00LuxLeaks - So many corporation secrets exposed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span></b>ax avoidance has become such a well paid consulting opportunity ! <br />Apple, Amazon, Ikea are been seriously blamed and, for the first time, may trigger a real change in Europe, now talking about Fraud, not just the near-legal-tax-optimization-game.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We're talking here about a huge scandal, where Billions of Euros fly out of the country tax forks.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">And what about Oracle on this ? Is the <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/controversy-over-double-irish-raises-issue-of-eu-s-power-over-tax-regimes-1.1966394">double irish schema </a>working fine enough ?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Read More : <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/uk-25-percent-google-tax-avoidance-apple-facebook/">UK 25% "Google" Tax</a>, <a href="http://www.icij.org/blog/2014/12/pwc-shire-grilled-uk-mps-luxleaks-response-continues">PWC worried explainations Fraud or Optimisation ?</a>, </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>O</b></span>racle France Works Council is entitled, once a year, to submit its questions to the subsidiary share holders.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We focused those questions this year on the tax optimisation process that may be of interest in many other countries - <a href="https://stbeehive.oracle.com/content/dav/st/FR_COMITE_ENTREPRISE_ORCF/Public%20Documents/Avis/2014/EN/FR-WC-FR-ShareHolders-resolutions%20oracle%20EN.docx">Read more here (Company Intranet).</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Financial Dept interests, Global Contracts Pay backs, Tax Pay backs are some of the areas covered here. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Again - An other issue on fair revenue accounting from corporations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>O</b></span>racle France Labor unions have unanimously signed an agreement regarding Work from home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This agreement brings the following considerations :</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- The Work@Home request is initiated by the employee and the answer to the approval request is provided in a maximum of 30 days. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- The work contract is changed to allow 40 to 100% of Work@Home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Work@Home may be denied to an employee, but a written justification has to be provided.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Work@Home can be cancelled by any party with a one month notive. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Temporary Work@Home can also be allowed up to 11 months to cover special events (new born, broken leg, relocation, elder care...). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- insurrance, and employee home office compliance is clarified.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Office furniture may be purchased through iProc or by the employee up to a maximum of 350 Euros.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- Employee has to comply with any request for meetings by his management under a notification process commonly agreed with the manager.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- High Speed Internet is reimboursed under the general expense policy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">- A monthly allocation is provided to home workers to compensate energy & office occupation (2 days = 10 E, 3 days = 65 E, 4-5 days = 81 Euros).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>O</b></span>ne of the essential managing skills, especially within Oracle is Forecasting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How come so few anticipation of change is shared with employees before things get to a critical point?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The EWC wrote in one of its recent opinion <i>"This planning would help identify and highlight jobs at risk, allow for budgeting of training and enable the implemention of repositioning / re-skilling plans before reaching the point where job losses become a necessity."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The lack of social forcast seems to be a very common problem as the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has made a formal complaint to the EU Ombudsman on the treatment of the EP’s report calling for legal action on the restructuring and anticipation of change (<a href="http://www.etuc.org/a/11511">Read more</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.icij.org/blog/2013/06/icij-database-cracks-open-secret-world">The annoucement can be accessed here</a> <a href="http://offshoreleaks.icij.org/search"> - And The database is here </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Y</b></span>ou may find interest in reading the detailled analysis from the <a href="http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2013/06/apple_is_not_alone.php#.Ua5HQUAwe-0">Citizens for Tax Justice Net<span style="font-size: small;">work.</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We do acknoledge Oracle is <span style="font-size: small;">far behind <span style="font-size: small;">Google (33 B$,<span style="font-size: small;">), Cisco (41 B$), M<span style="font-size: small;">icrosoft (61 B$), and Apple (83 B$).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Total unaccounted Income reaches 283 B$ for 18 Compan<span style="font-size: small;">ies !</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Aren't <span style="font-size: small;">th<span style="font-size: small;">ose numbers a<span style="font-size: small;">mazing and sickening<span style="font-size: small;"> ?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-20338459749252128342013-05-15T14:47:00.000-07:002013-05-15T14:59:15.635-07:00Dirty Little Secrets<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span> failure in enforcing anti corrupt practices has been uncovered and settled with a 2 Million dollars fine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the period 2005-2007, Oracle India Private Ltd used secret cash cushions and fake invoices that made bribery possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We still urge the company to move towards a more citizen approach and publish detailled accounts in each of its operating subsidiaries.</span></div>
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<a href="http://middleclasspoliticaleconomist.blogspot.fr/2012/07/new-estimates-of-offshore-wealth-show.html"><span style="font-size: small;">How many discrete companies do we still operate in haven islands ?</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Who's insuring we do not conduct unauthorized operations there ?<br /><br />Update 1 - <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/may/14/whistleblowers-claims-ignored">Whisleblowing failures (<span style="font-size: small;">The Gardian May 14th)</span></a></span></div>
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CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-88947601878003107082013-04-20T14:30:00.001-07:002013-04-20T14:30:12.322-07:00EWC Annual Meeting Communique<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>F</b></span>ollowing the Meeting with Management in March, <span style="font-size: small;">y</span>ou may consider <a href="https://stbeehive.oracle.com/content/dav/st/FR_COMITE_ENTREPRISE_ORCF/Public%20Documents/EWC/2013/European%20Works%20Council-2013.pdf">our join<span style="font-size: small;">t communique archived here (<span style="font-size: small;">Oracle I<span style="font-size: small;">ntranet).</span></span></span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>he European Works Council Representatives wishes to take next annual meeting as an opportunity to collect organisational pain points and present them to EMEA Top Management.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Workflow processes, Self Service, Internal Competition - Any inappropriate process is welcome to try to figure out how we may improve Oracle Employee life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Please contact your local employee representative, or one of the EWC steering commitee member (<a href="https://people.us.oracle.com/pls/oracle/f?p=8000:2:17675636614610::::PERSON_ID:195627331017658">Peter R</a>, <a href="https://people.us.oracle.com/pls/oracle/f?p=8000:2:17675636614610::::PERSON_ID:900795675551024">Rashmi</a>, <a href="https://people.us.oracle.com/pls/oracle/f?p=8000:2:17675636614610::::PERSON_ID:395158561285601">Peter H</a>, <a href="https://people.us.oracle.com/pls/oracle/f?p=8000:2:0::::PERSON_ID:160514531767823">Mariarosa </a>or <a href="https://people.us.oracle.com/pls/oracle/f?p=8000:2:17675636614610::::PERSON_ID:194036979302618">myself</a>).</span></div>
CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-43129555201671478742012-11-12T13:35:00.003-08:002012-11-12T13:42:26.240-08:00HP's EWC taking the company to court<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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A lawsuit has been filled by the European Works Council, willing to upgrade its rules of procedure to the EU 2009 level.</div>
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<a href="http://www.powerinaunion.co.uk/hewlett-packard-on-collision-course-with-european-workforce/">Power Union Website (Do not care the McAffee Site Advisor Warning)</a></div>
CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-88395241425563509082012-11-06T16:16:00.004-08:002012-11-06T16:16:42.341-08:00Oracle EWC Training In Rome - An opportunity to draw the future of EMEA Employee relationship<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>he meeting held for 3 days in Roma is an opportunity for 23 EU Works Council reps to share their point of views and best practices in order to move forward, as a group, for the coming years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I do feel a lot of progress has been made in building trust with EMEA management and enhancing the way we share our concerns. We will strive to enhance the value of this body for both parties, and find better ways of informing all employees EMEA Wide.</span></div>
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CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-12708543087602867782012-07-11T13:26:00.001-07:002012-07-11T13:26:34.955-07:00Transparency in Corporate Reporting<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>he used-to-be-called "Enabling the information age" Company, Oracle, is receiving a very average rating from Transparency International 2012 Survey, far behind SAP, and HP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Together with Microsoft, Walt Disney, Verison, Cisco,Oracle gets its lower rating on the "Organisational Transparency". How many companies have we got in the heaven Islands ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">As indicated in Business Insider, The court case between HP and Oracle regarding the Itanium destiny is turning into a bad soap opera as very confidential Instant Messages Archives are beeing uncovered and brought under the sunlight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Read more <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-mark-hurd-sun-hardware-quote-we-bought-a-dog-2012-5">Business Insider</a>, <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-never-wanted-suns-hardware-205735701.html">Yahoo Finance</a>, </span></div>
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<br /></div>CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-83357613620878714902012-03-13T15:37:00.005-07:002012-03-13T15:50:11.603-07:00EWC Annual Meeting in Geneva<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:180%;">T</span>he 2012 Oracle European Works Council will be held in Geneva with 23 representants from the different subsidiaries.<br /><br />This meeting ought to outline the state of the company and its employment trends within EMEA.<br /><br />Concerns are raised in certain areas, where no presentations were provided beforehand. Employee representatives will make their best effort to report back the main points to their respective employees.<br /><br /></span>CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-33080121892504165582012-03-13T15:11:00.003-07:002012-03-13T15:36:33.514-07:00Comporate Transparency Issues (Season 3)<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span></span>s a followup to the previous post, why would a fully compliant company, strictly implementing business rules according to the Oracle Ethics & Business Conduct code would need subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands ?<br />Why do we still maintain some black holes within a company, except for hiding things ?<br />After so many failures from the Audit companies (<a href="http://www.vrl-financial-news.com/accounting/intl-accounting-bulletin/issues/iab-2011/iab-499-500/kpmg-and-ey-face-investigatio.aspx">Olympus scandal</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_scandals">Wikipedia links, </a> <a href="http://www.euractiv.com/euro-finance/brussels-mulls-shake-big-auditors-news-507965">big four flaws</a>), how can we truly be confident that massive financial manipulations are a thing of the past.<br /><br />Can a shareholder assess the effectiveness of the internal whisleblowing processes ?<br />Can the world governments be so blind about the big corporations good reporting faith ?<br /><br /><br /></span>CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325973880648915905.post-53716753215589138892012-03-11T16:15:00.003-07:002012-03-11T16:24:27.650-07:00Comporate Transparency Issues (Season 3)<span style="font-size:85%;">What has changed since the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in our big corporations ?<br />A huge number of employees are made aware of very strict rules of engagement, defined in the business ethics guide.<br />However, which body controls the whisleblowing process ?<br />What proof is been made that no black things is still been done under covert ?<br />Why isn't there any employee representatives in those governance bodies ?<br /><br />Just have a look at the following Article from the NYT Entitled : <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/business/corporate-bribery-war-has-hits-and-a-few-misses.html?_r=1">Hits, and Misses, in a War on Bribery</a><br /></span>CFDT Oraclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879726895923823361noreply@blogger.com0