There isn’t any mandatory PTO over at Peraton. You should look into openings over here. There are plenty of open positions for field and review. I’ve always found Peraton to do the right thing by their people. Of course we have times of OT but it’s mostly voluntary when we have it.
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Do you really think a huge and long time federal contractor such as CACI, who just won a billion-dollar federal contract (DCSA) and has tons of inside/outside legal support would engage in something illegal? Highly doubt it. And I am sure they are not forcing anyone to use their earned time off. I imagine if you cannot or do not want to use your paid time off, you can supplement with unpaid leave, etc. Regardless, definitely an interesting move by a company that apparently has a significant inventory of work combined with a win on the new DCSA contract.
Giant companies/corporations have been caught time and time in again in illegal behavior regardless of who they are and who they have contracts with. Some just settle the lawsuits without admitting to wrongful behavior but any news search for corporate lawsuits can turn up hundreds of cases of criminal behavior. Ask any employment attorney. I do wonder if this is mandatory/mandated use of PTO or not.
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What are the consequences if you don’t use your PTO or don’t take unpaid leave? Is this truly a mandated request or just something they are trying to manipulate employees into doing in an effort to balance the books? Have you asked HR? Have you gone to your state or the federal labor board?
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If any company was going to engage in illegal behavior, it’d be CACI. I am appalled, shouldn’t be, but am, of CACI’s current ask. As if anyone needed any more evidence of the clown show that the background investigations sector is, here you go.
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Thanks for the info. My state only has one week waiting period. Even if you don’t make much money filing for unemployment CACI would still have to pay some and then on top of that calculate the man hours to process 500 unemployment claims. The money and hassle for unemployment payouts and man power to process claims might affect their decision to dump money making schemes or supposed short falls on employees.
Tolerable employment at Peraton depends on your supervisor. If you have a flunky, ladder climbing, control freak, dumb dumb ITS HORRIBLE.
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I am an FI with CACI. Got the love note from Handy Andy about the award (over a week after the other award-winner notified their staff) - BUT no mention about mandatory time off?? Is it for Review? How about Case Support?
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I can only confirm for review, not sure about any other departments
I heard that the information about having to take time off is incorrect CACI is telling people who have use or lose leave to take the days otherwise you’re not mandated to take five days off. I am not with.CACI. I just spoke to someone who does work for them and this is what he told me.
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Who knows at this point. The email I received said “everyone has to take off”
That would be incorrect. My SL directly told us this is being done because it is the end of the quarter and they are trying to balance costs on the current contract (indirect vs. direct labor). Even the SL’s were included on having to take leave for this. It was also mentioned that the staffing up in review outpaced the field so they are just catching up with us.
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Odd. I have two filing cabinets FULL of completed field work waiting to be reviewed.
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I literally have about 180 case envelopes in my cabinet, and am sending back maybe 20 a month with retention this past year. Pretty sure Review isn’t outpacing the field.
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I also have an overflowing filing cabinet.
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Sadly, our laws and penalties in the US for white collar crime and similar things (employment law violations, etc) are overwhelmingly in favor of the company and against the worker, thanks to our system of crony capitalism (not saying capitalism is the problem necessarily, I’m no socialist, but letting corporations own our politicians however is a major part of the issue).
In many instances companies will violate laws and either settle with the plaintiff for pennies on the dollar relative to the money they saved, or they’ll be hit with fines that again, are a drop in the bucket compared to the profits they raked in by cheating the system and the potential for fines are simply viewed as an acceptable risk.
We have a completely corrupt system that both parties are guilty of helping to establish, which needs dramatic overhaul.
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Just saw something about a CACI-Peraton team winning some gigundous job… surprised there is that much work to do anymore. Although that huge number was probably a total max possible amount, probably end up being worth quite a bit less.
I agree with you 100%
Just received several emails here at Paragon in preparation for the CACI take over. Yes, take over. That’s what it feels like. My manager already warned me about stats changing once CACI takes over. Talk about a “like it or not” scenario.
I have not heard of stats changing at paragon. I think they will use contractors for as much of the Dcsa work as possible and full time people for DHS. That is just my opinion.