{"id":74678,"date":"2020-04-08T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=74678"},"modified":"2020-04-08T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:15:05","slug":"willmott-dixon-furloughing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/willmott-dixon-furloughing\/74678\/","title":{"rendered":"Willmott Dixon furloughs over 400 employees amid coronavirus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>To &#8216;protect jobs during the current period of restricted movement&#8217;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willmottdixon.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willmott Dixon<\/a> is furloughing over 400 of its employees who are unable to carry out their job in line with the government guidance<\/h2>\n<p>So far, over 400 of Willmott Dixon\u2019s people have volunteered to be furloughed to support the company, with a similar number of colleagues joining them this week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19\/covid-19-guidance-for-employees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">government\u2019s Job Retention Scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These measures to furlough people will be reviewed at the end of May as the company takes the required action to safeguard the long-term future of its people during the current period.<\/p>\n<p>The company has around 90% of its projects operational, although like other major contractors, it faces growing supply-side challenges in securing trade and material resources which are having an impact on efficiency and output.<\/p>\n<h3>Site Operating Procedures<\/h3>\n<p>Willmott Dixon is ensuring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/covid-19-site-procedures\/73750\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Site Operating Procedures<\/a> produced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/construction-leadership-council\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction Leadership Council<\/a>, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/public-health-england\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public Health England<\/a>, are stringently implemented within its existing H&amp;S protocols governing safe site activity.<\/p>\n<p>This includes working closely with supply chain partners and other stakeholders to agree practices and programmes to create a safe environment<\/p>\n<h3>Ready for the future<\/h3>\n<p>Group chief executive Rick Willmott, said: \u201cThe battle to defeat COVID-19 has created an enormous challenge, one which is going to test us all immensely as we strive to protect jobs and be as resilient as we can be to the worst effects of the situation<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we had to take the tough decision of asking for volunteers to join the furlough process, I was deeply touched by the large number of colleagues who responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the decency and understanding of everyone who has been through this process; it is our intention to get everyone back to work as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we don\u2019t know how long this will last, taking the action to furlough some of our people now will help us ensure that we emerge from this in good shape and ready for the future after the pandemic is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To &#8216;protect jobs during the current period of restricted movement&#8217;, Willmott Dixon is furloughing over 400 of its people who are unable to carry out their job in line with the government guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[676,54592,882,276,701,1009],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-employment","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-supply-chain","12":"tag-willmott-dixon"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Willmott Dixon furloughs over 400 employees amid coronavirus crisis<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Willmott Dixon is furloughing over 400 of its people who are unable to carry out their job in line with the government guidance\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/willmott-dixon-furloughing\/74678\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Willmott Dixon furloughs over 400 employees amid coronavirus crisis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Willmott Dixon is furloughing over 400 of its people who are unable to carry out their job in line with the government guidance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/willmott-dixon-furloughing\/74678\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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