My employer failed to be aware of a change in reglementation and long story short, all the contracts for myself and fellow interim workers since March cannot be counted towards our special unemployment benefits. Losing that many hours means that a lot of us could lose our status, especially those currently trying to renew it, which is often a matter of livelihood. Useless to say, tempers were pretty hot yesterday... The company is meeting the official representative to try to sort it out, but I'm not sure our bosses are fully aware they have a time bomb on their hands : We simply cannot just sit on those 3 (probably 4 with June) months and if they cannot straighten that shit with authorities, we'll lit a fire up their asses (We must roughly be 15-25% of the workforce) and I know some would probably go before justice if need be.
Even if they fix it, it's just another episode in everyone's (Interim and permanent employees alike) skepticism towards our new management. Those people do not seem to be on the ball at all, there's a strong feeling that we are on a captainless ship (We've been led off for over a couple of months on how our biggest client would sign back in any day now, but they're still negotiating), there's rumors of a new round of layoffs as soon as they'll move out of the public scrutiny following last year's Ch.11, they're of course pretty tight fisted when it comes to discussing wages or even conducting maintenance on some of our biggest machines (which may or may not be actually unsafe for work) while spending time in endless meetings and complete bullshit sideshows.
Those dudes bought up plenty of companies before, but I'm not certain they fully grasped the task ahead of them in gobbling up a place with as much history as ours. Starstruck blindness...
