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My employer is a large public company. They are extremely worried about their Q4 financial performance and are scrutinising employees who bill their time very closely.
They have told a number of us who under-billed our time between Q1 and Q3 that we need to move to a different business unit by the end of the quarter (about 5 weeks from now), else we will be put on a performance improvement plan. If we don't pass the plan, it will result in us being sacked. Apparently the timeline of the plan could be as little as 30 days. The basis of the performance improvement plan will be whether we are (a) billing enough hours to clients and (b) have a confirmed project to be deployed onto for the next couple of months. I have been told by my manager by phone that once you get put on a performance improvement plan it is very difficult to pass, because people do not want to take you onto projects i.e. you can't bill your time.
I am especially upset about this because (a) I am currently comfortably billing my time at a good rate, but they are counting from end of Q3 i.e. all the work I've done since the start of October is being ignored; and (b) because I feel like the amount of time I bill is largely out of my control - my manager admitted on the phone that the original plan was that there would be a solid pipeline of work to give me, but that has turned out not to be the case; and (c) the timelines both to find a new role and for the PIP seem unreasonable. Taking into account my employer's current financial difficulty, I think that this might be a covert way for my employer to make people redundant without having to pay out for redundancy.
Can you help me?
Thanks
My employer is a large public company. They are extremely worried about their Q4 financial performance and are scrutinising employees who bill their time very closely.
They have told a number of us who under-billed our time between Q1 and Q3 that we need to move to a different business unit by the end of the quarter (about 5 weeks from now), else we will be put on a performance improvement plan. If we don't pass the plan, it will result in us being sacked. Apparently the timeline of the plan could be as little as 30 days. The basis of the performance improvement plan will be whether we are (a) billing enough hours to clients and (b) have a confirmed project to be deployed onto for the next couple of months. I have been told by my manager by phone that once you get put on a performance improvement plan it is very difficult to pass, because people do not want to take you onto projects i.e. you can't bill your time.
I am especially upset about this because (a) I am currently comfortably billing my time at a good rate, but they are counting from end of Q3 i.e. all the work I've done since the start of October is being ignored; and (b) because I feel like the amount of time I bill is largely out of my control - my manager admitted on the phone that the original plan was that there would be a solid pipeline of work to give me, but that has turned out not to be the case; and (c) the timelines both to find a new role and for the PIP seem unreasonable. Taking into account my employer's current financial difficulty, I think that this might be a covert way for my employer to make people redundant without having to pay out for redundancy.
Can you help me?
Thanks
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