As I understand it, contracts are not being renewed. It doesn’t matter if you’re on 20 years of service as an expat or on a first time contract, if its up for renewal, the company are not currently extending. Everyone else is on leave without pay. It was initially 3 month, now for the foreseeable future.
Because of the above, there will unlikly be any ‘ we regret to inform you” letters. The company are culling the numbers every month through contact completions. .
Of course, they can rehire those guys out of contract, but it will be on a 1st year deal, that may well be significantly revised downwards, by the time they start taking on crews again.