Maximum allowed working days

[Smartie]

Hi,

I know all the banks are doing no-notice furlough's, but I thought the worst case would be 2 weeks forced off over Christmas.

Many thanks

If you look at posts from a few weeks back, you'll see that a 3 week furlough made an appearance at various client sites last year.

[radish2008]

MrMarkyMark is spot on.

I believe this same client as above used to have 25 days in contract and sprung a surprise 8 days on top of that.
Now they have 32 days in contract ..... what will happen come November? I know I will be leaving a fair proportion of those days right to the end of the contract.

I'm not sure about that - the only stipulation in previous contracts was that 10 days had to be taken together. The difference here is that 55 billable days a quarter is being quite rigorously enforced. But it is what it is.

[alloverit]

One of the real problems I'm having with this policy is my resources that work weekends need to take off a week day or extend holidays. Definitely removes the incentive to work weekends.

[slogger]

i think i probably work at that bank ;-)
the main reason i heard for the fixed days is budgeting - they have thousands of contractors and just want to keep the cost known...at the start of the year they are given a budget of x and it looks bad if they go over that.

exceptions are made for individual contractors who are needed at specific times and also for specific projects - but thats not commonplace.

for me having the time off is brilliant - it was 2 weeks over xmas and I'm now looking at booking 6 weeks minimum holidays for the rest of the year :-)

[LondonManc]

i think i probably work at that bank ;-)
the main reason i heard for the fixed days is budgeting - they have thousands of contractors and just want to keep the cost known...at the start of the year they are given a budget of x and it looks bad if they go over that.

exceptions are made for individual contractors who are needed at specific times and also for specific projects - but thats not commonplace.

for me having the time off is brilliant - it was 2 weeks over xmas and I'm now looking at booking 6 weeks minimum holidays for the rest of the year :-)

Absolutely no problem with furlough and it's refreshing that a bank will plan it and clarify it in advance rather than springing it on you *after* you've already taken time off!