Stable job / been laid off / hours cut??

I only work part-time  but my hours have been cut from 3 days- to 2 days and now down to just 1 day. Luckily daycare has been really good and have agreed to let Ella go just 1 day a week (can't afford to send you a day when I am not working).

Thankfully DH is really busy at work and is in no danger of having his hours cut (although his company does now have a pay freeze).

Edited by Mum2Ella

Were actually still hiring!

(Any C++ Developers out there?)

Oh but my hours are voluntarily going down because Im having a baby!

same as you Julia... we are looking for more staff - only a little team but doing well

DH builds super yachts so they are a little slower and they laid off about 14 guys few months back but DH job is pretty sound i think

it does sux and i feel for everyone going thru it.. i got laid off 1 week before xmas 2 years ago and it suxed but luck i was able to pick up a job the next day

well i guess its just not a good time to be in the property field ay....(i work for a property valuers)

i wish i was going on maternity leave!

oh and i have soo much to pay for over this year! loan to pay and a wedding to save for

i don't know if i should try and find a part time job in the mean time or just try and stick it out for a couple of months (because who knows how long it will last) and just do some paintings etc to try and sell.

gez its scary how many people this is happening to!!!

DHs work have just layed off quite a few guys (builder) and they say they will keep DH and his work mate (also his best mate).....but it appears the bussiness isnt doing well either...they have the bay of plenty hospital contracts and even the hospitals are pulling in the purse strings!!!!!! they are contracted to build a juvenial prison in rotorua and that too has been pushed to the end of the year........i really dont feel very secure with his job!!

im seriously considering going back to work as soon as bubs is born for a few days a week (my mum will have bubs and the boys are in school and daycare) just so there is something to make up for DH days off when they occur...we are going into winter so of course they will occur!!!!

I'm a teacher and my job/classroom is closing at the end of term due to roll reducing...families in our area are mainly dairy workers and that isn't going so great in our area, therefore families are moving on. So no mat. pay for me...

DF is a achitectual draftsman and ...well.... as you could imagine, people aren't exactly splashing money around to build new houses. He's self emplyed, so no work equals no pay.

NOT COOL!

Ahhh .. no im not personally linked in, but my boss is (I queried a charge from them) lol, otherwise I wouldnt have known anything about it!

Willie is in waste management so he's kind of recession-proof too, someone has to cart the rubbish from refuse transfer station to landfill so it might as well be him, but even he's feeling the pinch with the reduced hours. The rub is that they still expect them to achieve the same targets, just in fewer hours.

This is the 3rd time I've been let go in 12 months, I've had my hours cut and had 2 contracts end early due to there not being enough work.
I've had to relocate to Wellington temporarily for work to earn some money so I can go back home and continue to look.
$$ being offered aren't that great either.
Thank fully DH is in the military so wont be laid off but he's not getting a pay rise this year, which will make it 3 years since his last one. Cost of living keeps going up.

This isn't stopping us starting a family though, if anything figure seeing as the workplace doesn't want me may as well leave it for a while anyway.

I'm on PPL atm but sympathies to all those looking for hours and being reduced/laid off. Remember to check out government subsidies (accommodation supplement-WINZ; WFF-IRD) as your income changes.