Christmas Furloughs 2018

[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).

[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.

[ladymuck]

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

[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.

[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?

[BR14]

Must be UK-centric

not in my experience , apart from Arabia, of course

[darmstadt]

it started back when the beancounters were promoted over the engineers
and when 'change manager' became a job title

Must be UK-centric

[BR14]

Never had this, ever regardless of working in finance, retail, manufacturing, etc. Colleagues working in the same office doing the same job have had it though Even when there is a software freeze I've always had to be there because things still go wrong and you continue to work on future developments thus time is not wasted, this is short sighted by companies when the time could be well utilised

it started back when the beancounters were promoted over the engineers
and when 'change manager' became a job title

[darmstadt]

Never had this, ever regardless of working in finance, retail, manufacturing, etc. Colleagues working in the same office doing the same job have had it though Even when there is a software freeze I've always had to be there because things still go wrong and you continue to work on future developments thus time is not wasted, this is short sighted by companies when the time could be well utilised

[BR14]

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

[ladymuck]

I'm at the same client but London-based, suspension of services commences on Monday 10th Dec for all contractors (except the PAYE 'contractors' on agency's payroll).

Good to see consistency being applied once again

[fibio]

Barclays are just communicating theirs out for all managed service supplied contractors:

Mandatory 10 working days from 14 to 31 December (well, incl bank hols), plus
Additional 5 days in October/November

If you don't have any days off in October/November then your furlough starts on 7 December

If you take more than 5 days off in October/November your furlough period still starts on 14 December

I'm at the same client but London-based, suspension of services commences on Monday 10th Dec for all contractors (except the PAYE 'contractors' on agency's payroll).

[ladymuck]

Heaps of people now engaged via the awful outfit that is HCL (myself included). There may be other firms too. Not sure if the lot from Avanade are included. Very few agency type workers - they use an agency to provide the contract but it's all on a SOW to HCL.

[northernladuk]

What do they class as Managed Service Contractors? Is that agency supplied as well as the bigger outsourcers?

I only ask as when we all got walked a couple of years ago some key guys were transferred to the Manager Services like Tech Mahindra which weren't in scope of the head count chops so I'm a little confused what they consider 'Manager Service Contractors' now.

[ladymuck]

Barclays are just communicating theirs out for all managed service supplied contractors:

Mandatory 10 working days from 14 to 31 December (well, incl bank hols), plus
Additional 5 days in October/November

If you don't have any days off in October/November then your furlough starts on 7 December

If you take more than 5 days off in October/November your furlough period still starts on 14 December