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[LEFT][B]Texas Maritime Lawyers Challenge Transocean’s Decision To Cut Injured Oil Rig Workers’ Salaries[/B][/LEFT]
[LEFT]Houston maritime attorney Kurt Arnold says he is shocked that Transocean Ltd. will cease paying full salary and benefits to crew members who [/LEFT]
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[LEFT]According to news reports, the company said it will slash the salaries and benefits by Dec. 15, just six months after an explosion and fire aboard the oil rig killed 11 workers and triggered the enormous BP oil spill.
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According to news reports, the company said it will slash the salaries and benefits by Dec. 15, just six months after an explosion and fire aboard the oil rig killed 11 workers and triggered the enormous BP oil spill.
“It’s appalling that this company, which has already caused so much damage and suffering, would now take men who made $10,000 to $15,000 a month and cut their salaries to $25 a day,” says Arnold, a partner in the Houston maritime law firm of Arnold & Itkin LLP, which is representing about 25 of the injured Transocean workers. “These workers don’t deserve this type of treatment.”
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Our industry is notorious for good and bad times, employment-wise, but could any company stoop as low as this? I wonder if it isn’t in response to legal claims against Transocean by the rig’s employees.