DublinFC Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 Hate to hear people are now losing their jobs over the current COVID-19 situation. I hope things turn around soon and they can be brought back to work. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/tourism-cruises/article241094466.html WAAAYTOOO, The Cruise Junkie and CruzOnBye 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLMoran Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 To be clear, these are contract workers and not regular employees of RCL. Per the article (emphasis added): Quote 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princevaliantus Posted March 11, 2020 Report Share Posted March 11, 2020 I hope they get back on their feet quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaiC01 Posted March 12, 2020 Report Share Posted March 12, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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