Staff at a Fife firm have been left in limbo after being sent home due to a shortage of work.
Employees at Parsons Peebles were sent home earlier this month and told not to return to its Rosyth complex until next week due to a lack of contracts.
The company, which manufactures electric motors and generators, has confirmed that a number of staff have been laid off temporarily, with many expected to return to their posts next week.
One employee contacted The Courier and said that they had been told to wait by the phone for more news.
“We were told to go home for two weeks but we don’t really know what is happening.
“We’ve been told to stay near a phone as we could get a call asking us to come back.”
Parsons Peebles history spans over a century having started out in Edinburgh in 1898.
Having relocated to Rosyth’s Royal Dockyard in 2000, the company was acquired by Clyde Blowers Capital two years ago, then spearheaded by billionaire businessman Jim McColl.
The company has invested heavily in recent years and expanded in its Fife workforce, having employed around 40 members of staff as recently as 2013.
A spokesman for the company said: “The Parsons Peebles Group’s (PPG) Rosyth facility has recently had to implement a programme of temporary layoffs and short term working for some of its staff.
“Although the group as a whole has been experiencing positive growth of late, the high exposure to the oil and gas market at Rosyth has resulted in a downturn in work.
“Employees have been fully informed of the reasons for this measure and mitigating steps such as deployment of staff in other PPG companies have been pursued.
“This programme does not impact any other PPG locations and the electromechanical products and services we offer are still in high demand in most of our end markets.”