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YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions
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this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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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.
You have any idea the wide spread feelings on this?
It sounds like that's what we should be doing in more countries,.US.
Oh the US has tried to fix this issue multiple times. The end result was many of us getting laid off after 18 months every time because they couldn't extend our contacts any further by law. There's no reason for a company to convert a contractor if they're not required to.
Yeah, it's frustrating when people in turn can't find good medical insurance.
The trade for sometimes higher pay or flexibility in assignments doesn't work when you can't afford insurance or other benefits.
Assuming you were even being paid about permanent positions.
Yeah it's really frustrating. I'm fortunately at a level where the contracting companies have to provide at least decent benefits to get employees. But contracting sucks. Often you're restricted in what you can do, causing unnecessary delays to getting software done at the rate the company wants.
I've been yelled at by upper management for not doing something I legally wasn't allowed to. No apology when an employee on the call pointed it out of course.
It's a shit show. But my market is fucked right now so I'm about to go get a job at a grocery store or something and figure it out I guess.
Those work situations are the worst. It reminds me of the saying "you can be right, or you can get what you want, but not both".
You can correctly assert your contractor status and correctly point out that you're not legally allowed to do a thing. You're in the right, no doubt, but that doesn't stop an unhappy executive from "letting you go" anyway.
Good luck to you.