Home » HR practices » Comp and Ben @en » Great Britain: audit firms using sabbatical leave to deal with the coronavirus crisis Great Britain: audit firms using sabbatical leave to deal with the coronavirus crisis Through . Published on 08 April 2020 à 11h12 - Update on 08 April 2020 à 16h48 Resources In order to lessen the financial impact of the health crisis, audit and consulting firms are looking into the idea of the sabbatical leave option. Thus, professional services firm Grant Thornton has invited its employees to voluntarily choose between one of these two options by April 10, (i) take sabbatical leave until the end of June, during which they will receive 30% of their salary, or (ii) opt for a 40% reduction in their hours and pay until the end of May. Grant Thornton UK said, “These are clearly exceptional times and these voluntary measures help us to support our people while also continuing to support our clients.” The company is counting on the good will of at least 10% of its 4,500 UK employees to avoid, if possible, having to resort to the government’s aid plan, the implementation of which is considered complex by some employers (c.f. article No. 11771). Deloitte, one of the “Big Four” accounting and professional services organizations ‘has offered all of its 16,000 staff an unpaid “childcare and dependants” sabbatical’. Meanwhile French global audit, accounting and consulting group Mazars has introduced voluntary unpaid leave for teams in the UK whose workload has significantly slowed down. Managing the fallout of Covid-19 Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst name Last name Organization Function email* Object of the message Your messageRGPD J’accepte la politique de confidentialité.PhoneThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications Supporting parenthood in the workplace: a win-win strategy Supporting employee carers: a CSR challenge Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels