Weeks worked per year

[skysies]

2 weeks mandatory christmas furlough seems to be the standard nowadays as well

Never had furlough so far. Is this usually defined in the contract, or they can just decide whenever they want?

[northernladuk]

Let us have your suggestion for rank titles and number of posts to achieve and we will see what we can do.

They can ask you not to work whenever they want. We effectively work on a T&M basis. Same is true for when we just rock up and want a week off. Some client's are good enough to advise you this is policy well in advance. Others will either let you find out from chatting to other people or drop it on you a few weeks before. Always expect to not work over Xmas.

[MrMarkyMark]

They can ask you not to work whenever they want. We effectively work on a T&M basis. Same is true for when we just rock up and want a week off. Some client's are good enough to advise you this is policy well in advance. Others will either let you find out from chatting to other people or drop it on you a few weeks before. Always expect to not work over Xmas.

More common now, with few exceptions, in fact had my first enforced last year, first one ever.
Was always exempt before due to risk.

[theroyale]

Not at that point yet. Want to make as much as possible in the next 5 years and get out. Contracting may be dead in 2-3 years anyway..Don't want to miss that chance now...

On the contrary, with Tier-2 ICT Short Term closing in a few days from now, and Tier-2 ICT Long Term's higher minimum salary (£41,500) higher than what the average Indian IT company pays its young software developers on a stint 'onsite' (around £35k last time I checked), I think there are reasons to be more optimistic than in recent years about the future of IT contracting in the UK.

[skysies]

On the contrary, with Tier-2 ICT Short Term closing in a few days from now, and Tier-2 ICT Long Term's higher minimum salary (£41,500) higher than what the average Indian IT company pays its young software developers on a stint 'onsite' (around £35k last time I checked), I think there are reasons to be more optimistic than in recent years about the future of IT contracting in the UK.

Hmm, the visa thing that you mention won't solve the issue IMHO. The mid to senior Indian out-source workers from Accenture I work with get around £50k per year. Plus the government plans to put all IT contracting inside IR35 real soon. Read the article from Times below:

Theresa May to Abolish Contracting Profession in June

[LondonManc]

Hmm, the visa thing that you mention won't solve the issue IMHO. The mid to senior Indian out-source workers from Accenture I work with get around £50k per year. Plus the government plans to put all IT contracting inside IR35 real soon. Read the article from Times below:

Theresa May to Abolish Contracting Profession in June

That's the second time that this link's been posted today and it bears no resemblance to the actual Times article that it purports to discuss.

The article could equally be construed as giving hope to specialist contractors by discussing control and how more clients crave it and talking about worker rights as a trade-off for it. This could potentially lead to B2B contractor engagements (outside IR35, customer vs supplier) and worker/FTC engagements (inside IR35, fully PAYE, bum-on-seaters). Very easy to interpret the Times article however you want.

[TheFaQQer]

Read the article from Times below:

Give workers more rights, prime minister will tell bosses

If you're going to reference an article from The Times, you could at least link to an article from The Times.

I've corrected your link now so that it points to the right place rather than Gerry's view of what The Times said. Compare and contrast the two - there are significant differences between the two articles.

[radish2008]

If you're going to reference an article from The Times, you could at least link to an article from The Times.

I've corrected your link now so that it points to the right place rather than Gerry's view of what The Times said. Compare and contrast the two - there are significant differences between the two articles.

These links don't work for me.

To be frank though I don't see how the Gov can dictate anything to private sector businesses and don't see it ever happening. As the recent NI changes have proven once they start to hit their own demographic they quickly back down so I think this is just more sabre rattling.

Good point about IPSE though.

[TheFaQQer]

These links don't work for me.

Corrected - I missed a colon in the URL.

[northernladuk]

Corrected - I missed a colon in the URL.

Nothing worse than a missing colon!