Christmas Furloughs 2018

[Mordac]

Banks always have change freezes over christmas.
so they lay off the expensive <contractor> people, apart from infrastructure support etc.
It's not new, this

It's at least 20 years old, and personally I'd be happy with the time off. You know all the banks are now doing this as a matter of routine, so why are we even bothering to discuss it?

[Anonimouse]

At jpm it was sold as fraud prevention, somebody else does your job for 2 weeks to check.

No enforced furlough at boe this year.

[ladymuck]

Never claimed this was new, just thought it would be interesting to share what various companies are enforcing this year.

[vetran]

Never claimed this was new, just thought it would be interesting to share what various companies are enforcing this year.

Cheers, sharing information is normally good, people can just ignore it if they want.

[BlackCountryContractor]

Public sector wise for those gigging in emergency services, the current forecast for most contractors on my project is that there won't be a enforced furlough yet but we are told we might be asked to take voluntary leave individually outside of Christmas and boxing day (Still wide open however if managers decide otherwise).