Mace furloughs more than 800 staff

By Dave Rogers2020-04-03T05:00:00

Firm joins McAlpine, O’Rourke, Wates and Morgan Sindall in turning to two-week old government initiative

Mace is the latest contractor to furlough huge numbers of employees in an extraordinary 24 hours which has seen close to 4,000 staff in the industry told they will be switching to the government’s job retention scheme.

Sir Robert McAlpine is expected to unveil more details of its decision to furlough the majority of its 2,000 staff next week while yesterday evening Wates and Morgan Sindall both furloughed 1,000 staff each.

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