BP to freeze raise of salaries to its employees around the world
In 2015 BP oil and gas company will freeze raise of salaries to reduce the costs against the background of slump of oil prices, Financial Times quoted Robert Dudley, BP President, as saying his employees.
In 2016 he promised that the salaries will be raised as usually.
Salary makes major part of BP’s operation costs.
According to Reuters, in 2013 the company paid its 83,900 employees a little less than $14 billion as salaries and pensions.
In early January the company said that it will reduce 200 positions in the staff and 100 contract positions.
According to the restructure plans, the company plans to sell assets worth $10 billion by 2016.
The company usually raised salaries of its employees by in average 3-5% a year.—0—
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