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YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google's refusal to negotiate with the union.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (58 children)

Cognizant, a professional services company that Alphabet contracted the YouTube Music team through, said in a statement that the workers were let go after their contract ended at its intended date, according to KXAN in Austin.

A spokesperson for Google told Business Insider that Cognizant is responsible for ending the workers' employment, not Google.

"Contracts with our suppliers across the company routinely end on their natural expiry date, which was agreed to with Cognizant," the company said in a statement.

Not sure how much of the fault is from Google's side here since the employees contracted from another company.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (10 children)

At least in the UK, if you work like an employee enough, the court can overrule the technicality of your employment status as a contractor and apply labor law protections.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

On the books, that is the case in the US too but it is almost never enforced

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