Uk leadership announced today five hundred job losses in uk&i.
Additionally some people identified as having their roles impacted by covid19 will get a twenty percent pay cut.
Well there goes any idea that the new ceo had a different plan to the old one.
150 staff to be retrenched in Australia today. Very sad. Everyone is scared. Very emotional day.
Don't forget that DXC will claim back up to £2500 for each of the furloughed employees from the government and they will save on tax and insurance payments. Not a bad saving for UK&I numbers. I am surprised they didn't do it as soon as furlough started.
Here it comes again. Having been made redundant 2019 in the 2,150 or so UK redundancies, I had thought since Laurie took himself off into ‘early retirement’ the euphemism I imagine for lying low whilst a class action lawsuit announced in the US to determine whether the stock price of DXC had been artificially inflated by mass firings, the new CEO might have led the organisation into a safer and more secure era for the remaining staff. My assumptions were that the workforce must have been paired back to the barest of bare bones by now. Imagine my surprise to have discovered last week DXC has announced another 500 redundancies in the UK and Ireland. Seriously it seems Covid is proving a convenient excuse to carry on with wielding the hatchet, now is an even worse time to be made redundant. AdviseD initially to take ‘voluntary’ but he organisation to get me off their figures, I stuck to my stubborn position of being a compulsory because the financial incentive on offer was somewhat insignificant between having to rely on JSA if necessary for the 6 months due to having paid national insurance contributions for some 30 odd years priorly or an extra 500 quid for the sake of sticking it to the DXC ‘man’, retrospectively I should have signed on much earlier but I still believe that they should not be trying to convince people into being paid off to go away quietly in that asking why I came to that decision was actually none of their business. I see absolutely nothing has changed at all in the direction of this company ie. downwards perpetually sc-aping the bottom of the barrel in terms of its moral obligations. Please stop with your ethics rhetoric forcing employees to run the annual bore on with the do as we say and not as we do. Find a moral compass for goodness sake, it is high time DXC Corporate!
thought UK was one of those countries where they couldn't just arbitrarily cut your pay, at least not without your agreement - we saw that when HP tried it back in the GFC days - they may say your job has gone and you have to do this new one at 80% of your old salary, but in that case thought they had to offer redundancy as an option as well
I don't think that it's just UK&I - It's across the whole of UK&I and Middle East and Africa (UKIMEA); although I do understand that it's still a fairly high number across that area.
20% pay cut - or they will get 80% of their gross pay (with benefits & pension contributions) to not work as they are furloughed ... sounds like an ok deal to me.
Yep, first sign of trouble and the company wants to get rid of people, although there's been nothing via email as a follow up to the 10/15 minute call, so is it for real or not?
Same tune, different fiddle
As The Who sing 'Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss'.