I'm currently working on an inside IR35 job. I like the team and the work is interesting but there is one thing that rankles me.
The permanent staff get laptops and can work from home with little or no justification. The contractors are told they can't work from home or have laptops because they are contractors.
I live an hour and a half from the client site and my daughter has frequent health issues. I have to take an entire morning off to get her to a medical appointment and lose half a day's pay whereas the local permanent staff work from home for fairly trivial reasons like they are expecting a parcel to be delivered.
I'm sure someone will come along and tell me I want to have my cake and eat it but it wouldn't cost the client anything to treat the contractors equally in this case and I feel like a second class citizen.
I'm thinking of raising it with my manager and local HR advisor on behalf of the contractors but don't want to make any waves. Am I being silly?
The permanent staff get laptops and can work from home with little or no justification. The contractors are told they can't work from home or have laptops because they are contractors.
I live an hour and a half from the client site and my daughter has frequent health issues. I have to take an entire morning off to get her to a medical appointment and lose half a day's pay whereas the local permanent staff work from home for fairly trivial reasons like they are expecting a parcel to be delivered.
I'm sure someone will come along and tell me I want to have my cake and eat it but it wouldn't cost the client anything to treat the contractors equally in this case and I feel like a second class citizen.
I'm thinking of raising it with my manager and local HR advisor on behalf of the contractors but don't want to make any waves. Am I being silly?
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