Published By: Myrna Salomon on January 6, 2017 10:52 am EST
Oil & gas companies have been in a celebratory sentiment since OPEC meeting in Vienna last year; the results of the meeting led to a wave of optimism in the global energy market. Energy majors around the world are now looking to increase their exploration and production (E&P) activities.
The past couple of years have dented financial profiles of oil & gas companies, given the low crude environment and economic slowdown. However, the latest rally in the oil prices has come as a golden opportunity for energy giants to mitigate their losses.
Several employees at the Big Oil were laid off between 2014-2016 in the wake of low commodity prices. Although the companies, themselves being in a tough spot, cannot be blamed for the headcount reduction. A similar update has come from the Anglo-Dutch multinational Royal Dutch Shell plc (ADR) (NYSE:RDS.A).
According to CBC News, the integrated oil & gas major has been accused by the Canadian authorities for having denied the employees a small break off to vote in the federal election. The matter comes under the act of employee rights violation.
Shell has seized sacked-service tax breaks for terminated employees overseas. According to sources close to the matter, the company plans to give a tough time to its pensioners as well.
Furthermore, when laying off employees as part of its cost-cutting program, the company doesn’t consider the sentiments of its redundant workers as to how would they react when invited to apply back for the same positions that they previously worked at.
Ethics and employee rights are two main drivers of a company’s success and its violation could lead to protests at Shell; a trouble that the company would not welcome amid the oil price environment.
This website and sisters royaldutchshellplc.com, shellnazihistory.com, royaldutchshell.website, johndonovan.website, and shellnews.net, are owned by John Donovan. There is also a Wikipedia segment.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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