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Bombardier
Outside IR35 banned
Division: Engineering
Stand to lose experienced engineers many of whom have far greater experience and time on type than permie staff. Will make managing the peaks and troughs that this sectors sees difficult to manage.
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Bombardier
Outside IR35 banned
No help or advice from either Shorterm or Bombardier, all contractors must either go PAYE or through shorterm's selected umbrella companies. Impossible to get through to anyone at either company as phone calls are never answered and emails are ignored.
Assessments were never offered to any contractor in any department and blanket "inside" judgements have been given to every contractor regardless of role or situation.
Shorterm also tried to change everyone's contracts a week early (26th March) to put everyone on this new PAYE/Umbrella scheme. There will be a mass exodus of contractors from Bombardier in April, guaranteed.
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DS Smith
IR35 fairly assessed
Division: IT
Individual case by case determination. Leading by example of what all companies should be doing.
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DS Smith
IR35 fairly assessed
Fair individual assessment process using CEST with allowance for feedback from all parties
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Pilkington
Outside IR35 banned
Division: SAS
No tool used, no SDS, generic decision.
Contractors leaving
Projects impacted.
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Bombardier
Outside IR35 banned
Division: Vehicle builder
Umbrella or PAYE only. No cest assessments done...complete blanket ban. A load of contractors already left and I assume more will leave in the near future
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DS Smith
IR35 fairly assessed
Fair discussion and assessment, leading to an agreeable outcome for both parties.
Very pleased!
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Cobham Aerospace Connectivity
Outside IR35 banned
Been advised by agent that there will be a ban on PSCs from 6 April. Some contractors like myself will be leaving. Projects likely to be impacted.
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Cobham Aerospace Connectivity
Outside IR35 banned
Been advised by agent that there will be a ban on PSCs from 6 April. Some contractors like myself will be leaving. Projects likely to be impacted.
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Bombardier
Outside IR35 banned
Division: Transportation
Claim to have done determinations but blanket assessed
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SchneiderElectric ES
IR35 fairly assessed
Division: Controls UK
Company have worked hard to implement the change fairly and according to the rules.
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Edwards
Outside IR35 banned
Blanket, no discussion
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Harmonic
Unfair IR35 assessment
Applying blanket assessments across their main contracts with the outcome being no roles considered outside IR35.
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Edwards
Outside IR35 banned
Division: Edwards Vacuum
Presented with 3 options.
1 PAYE,
2, Stay until they recruit a permie,
3, Leave
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Harmonic
Outside IR35 banned
Looking towards Fixed Term Contracts only.
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Element Six
Outside IR35 banned
Blanket decision, Umbrella or nothing. No permanent employment offers.
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SharkNinja
Permanent roles only
Division: Software Development
I had 2 extensions on my original contract. My "Line Manager" requested a 6 month extension last time and it was refused, I was given 3 months instead falling short of the April 2020 IR35 implementation and IR35 was quoted as the reason. They did work on offering me a permanent role within the company which after a few days thought I declined.