• alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
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    1 year ago

    Do part-time employees usually get offered severance packages or is this (kinda ghoulish) business as usual?

    by design part-time employment usually does not confer the benefits of full employment, no. that’s part of why so many unions seek to either upgrade part-time workers to full time workers or limit the number of part-time/subcontracted workers that a company is employing–otherwise you basically have an underclass of people who can get totally fucked at any time.

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      That’s what I thought, but I wasn’t sure if the game industry had different standards to other fields for that kinda stuff. Sacking a bunch of QA agents does not sound promising for the games they’re working on…

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        QA people being mistreated is very, very common. They’d likely rehire some when required or use contractors.