Furloughed Farm staff ?

[Devil's advocate]

We've lost senior staff (we have lots of early retired part time help)

Purely health reasons not really possible to self isolate here & some have health problems or partners with health problems.

 

[Johnnyboxer]

certainly nothing to stop you doing so if you choose

as in an different thread i’m beginning to wish i had done so

Still time

 

[ridger]

What if someone wont come back to work again, even though it's safe?

 

[T Hectares]

certainly nothing to stop you doing so if you choose

as in an different thread i’m beginning to wish i had done so

I guess I missed the sarcasm when I could remember you were considering furlough back in the spring !!

As for the other comments, I was confused as to why a busy, dynamic successful business would choose to exclude loyal hard working staff, but I was clearly clouded by the “sarcasm” and the hilarious context it was clearly meant, god I’m glad I don’t indulge in Twitter...

 

[Clive]

I guess I missed the sarcasm when I could remember you were considering furlough back in the spring !!

As for the other comments, I was confused as to why a busy, dynamic successful business would choose to exclude loyal hard working staff, but I was clearly clouded by the “sarcasm” and the hilarious context it was clearly meant, god I’m glad I don’t indulge in Twitter...

to be honest on a drilled up arable farm you would not really be excluding good staff - more giving them a paid extended holiday throgh months where there's no need for them to be at work

but as i also said “just because you can doesnt mean you should”

 

[T Hectares]

to be honest on a drilled up arable farm you would not really be excluding good staff - more giving them a paid extended holiday throgh months where there's no need for them to be at work

but as i also said “just because you can doesnt mean you should”

TBF I’ve worked on and managed Arable farms for 25 years and the Winters are never dull, by the time everyone has had some time off there’s grain going out, maintenance hedge cutting and property repairs on the practical side and lots of record keeping, H&S, budgets and planning in the office, every business I’ve worked for has non farm income projects that get focussed on in the winter, don’t think I’ve ever been bored !!

 

[davieh3350]

Big estate near home seemingly (a lot of people backed up the story but I never spoke to them) furloughed all but the shepherd and the cattle man as they were calving and lambing.... cut their wages to 80% to match the others though.

 

[Clive]

TBF I’ve worked on and managed Arable farms for 25 years and the Winters are never dull, by the time everyone has had some time off there’s grain going out, maintenance hedge cutting and property repairs on the practical side and lots of record keeping, H&S, budgets and planning in the office, every business I’ve worked for has non farm income projects that get focussed on in the winter, don’t think I’ve ever been bored !!

work often expands into available space a bit like junk does I find

 

[AftonShepherd]

Big estate near home seemingly (a lot of people backed up the story but I never spoke to them) furloughed all but the shepherd and the cattle man as they were calving and lambing.... cut their wages to 80% to match the others though.

I think I'd have told them where to stick their calving and lambing!

 

[T Hectares]

work often expands into available space a bit like junk does I find

Sorry to hear you find that...

I’ve a couple of useful winter income streams that utilises labour and machinery at an otherwise quiet time of year and ensures that I can keep a good man in full time employment rather than lay him off when we’ve finished drilling

 

[D14]

Sorry to hear you find that...

I’ve a couple of useful winter income streams that utilises labour and machinery at an otherwise quiet time of year and ensures that I can keep a good man in full time employment rather than lay him off when we’ve finished drilling

If you laid your ‘good man’ off after drilling you wouldn’t get him back next year. So you’d have to keep him on if you wanted his skills the following year irrelevant of the extra income stream he works on.

The tide has firmly turned now in that good labour is in charge because there isn’t enough of them. The employers will do what the employees want to keep them, OR the employer invests in bigger machinery to do the job themselves in less time.

As the machinery trade keep telling us, ‘equipment is cheaper than labour’.

 

[hally]

If you laid your ‘good man’ off after drilling you wouldn’t get him back next year. So you’d have to keep him on if you wanted his skills the following year irrelevant of the extra income stream he works on.

The tide has firmly turned now in that good labour is in charge because there isn’t enough of them. The employers will do what the employees want to keep them, OR the employer invests in bigger machinery to do the job themselves in less time.

As the machinery trade keep telling us, ‘equipment is cheaper than labour’.

It doesn’t calve a cow or lamb a sheep though.....sadly

 

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