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To be clear, these are contract workers and not regular employees of RCL. Per the article (emphasis added):

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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is laying off workers contracted by the company for certain “special projects,” spokesperson Jonathan Fishman confirmed Wednesday.

The layoffs are “part of efforts to manage the company prudently and reduce operating expenses,” he said. Only contracted workers are affected.

It's still unfortunate that people are losing jobs, but this is part of the tradeoff you take as a contract worker in exchange for the generally higher pay vs. what the regular full-time employees get.

Hopefully all of those who were laid off are part of a contracting firm, rather than truly independent contractors, and their firm still provides them with some kind of benefits package.

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18 hours ago, JLMoran said:

To be clear, these are contract workers and not regular employees of RCL. Per the article (emphasis added):

It's still unfortunate that people are losing jobs, but this is part of the tradeoff you take as a contract worker in exchange for the generally higher pay vs. what the regular full-time employees get.

Hopefully all of those who were laid off are part of a contracting firm, rather than truly independent contractors, and their firm still provides them with some kind of benefits package.

Not necessarily true a lot of "contractors" are on zero hour minimum wage contacts,  which has become only to common in the gig economy.

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