Please read and understand what I have written and think about it. - Anonymous Lactalis USA Employee Review

1.0
Oct 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

There are no pros. Similar companies offer more money and equal benefits.

Cons

Staff is short handed so 60 hour work weeks for hourlies is not uncommon (this has been on going for 3 years now). Managers are expected to work 60-80 hour weeks for crap wages and if you are due any sort of review or raise good luck getting it with in 6 months. Top managment does crap like hire consultant companies to come tell us all we need to do is talk to our employees and suddenly they won't care that they never get to see their family or that their work load and stress level is too high. There have been multiple Managers, Supervisor, and employees that have walked out at the site I work at, and no offense but if that happened at one of my plants as the CEO I would want to know why. Pretty much everything is in very bad shape but what does it really matter. Even if the actual CEO reads this he won't do anything about it. Everything is about profit but the main thing behind profit which is the people that make your product are neglected or run into the ground. 95% of the workers I work with are looking for a job somewhere else and again as a CEO that should be very disturbing. Especially since most of them would take a 4 to 5 dollar an hour pay cut just to not have to work at Lactalis. With the global work force dwindling soon there will not be enough people to fill all the jobs available globally, and Lactalis will be at the bottom of the list for places people will work. I don't know why I wasted my time writing this maybe just on the hope that someone putting it in a non confrontational way will make someone listen but I am almost certain this will not be the case.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

I worked at the LHD division. Pros: Talented employees, strong products/business, and a culture that was once great

Cons

Cons: Significant decline in morale, trust, and employee engagement following executive leadership changes. This used to be a company that people were genuinely proud to work for. The culture wasn’t perfect, but employees felt valued, leadership was approachable, and there was a strong sense that people mattered alongside business results. Executive leadership changes began in 2025, and the shift became much more noticeable after the LHD CEO departure at the end of the year. Since then, morale, trust, and engagement have declined significantly. The culture today feels very different from the one that made many employees join and stay. Communication is less transparent, decisions feel more disconnected from employees, and there is a growing perception that executive leadership is focused on short-term objectives at the expense of the people who helped build the business. The appointments of the new CEO, US and CEO, LHD coincided with a dramatic shift in employee sentiment. Whether intentional or not, many employees have experienced these changes as a move away from the people-focused culture that previously set the company apart. There have also been broader changes across the executive team, and the organization feels increasingly centralized and disconnected from the realities of the U.S. workforce. What is most frustrating is that there are still many talented, hardworking people throughout the company. The issue is not the employees. The issue is that executive leadership has failed to preserve the culture that was once one of the organization’s greatest strengths.

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