The interesting thing about all of that is that it actually makes financial sense for the companies. There are a number of advantages...
1. The consultants usually don't get benefits, which add up to an enormous part of most regular compensation budgets. 2. The consultants don't have any recourse in case of layoff... no severance, to "golden parachutes", also an expensive part of the compensation budget in a company. If the company suddenly hits a rough patch, the consultants can be let go quickly and with no fanfare - and then hired back just as fast. 3. In some companies, consultants are paid through a totally different budget, which makes it possible for the companies to be more creative in terms of writing off the expenses/billing the client/hiding the expenses... IOW, doing what they want with the expense item. The same thing goes on here in the US - My BIL was an Nuclear Engineer who worked as a consultant (with numerous clients) after he was let go. Clay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 2:12 PM Subject: [lace-chat] 10 Public Servants > The last verse of David's rhyme: > > The last Public Servant agreed to relocate, > Replaced by 10 consultants at twice the hourly rate. > > is similar, yet quite different, to what happened to my younger brother. > > He worked for BP oil as an executive engineer, on a very nice salary, thank > you very much, along with a whole bunch of others. Then there were > redundancies over several years, and then my brother's turn came. He got his > lump sum and pension at the age of 48, set himself up as a consultant and > registered with an agency. He was immediately employed by BP at three times > what they were paying him while he was one of their employees. That was 10 > years ago and he's still being employed by BP as a consultant. > > He's one of those people for whom everything turns out more than better than > it was before. > > Jean in Poole > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
