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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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You assume the cognizant employees are privy to the contract terms.
I would never sign a contract without knowing the details.
Cognizant employees don’t sign a contract. They are W2 employees, who are “contracted out” to other companies. The contract is between Cognizant and the third party. The employee literally never sees it.
They have a contract with their employer, though. The problem here is not contracting, it's this stupid at-will employment that allows this to happen
They are W2 employees. They have a contract insofar as any other W2 employer.
Unless you mean the employer and the third party, in this case Google, which I absolutely agree with.
And yeah, the at-will bs gets quite tiresome. People assume they are “safe” because they aren’t contracted, but when you’re contracted you can tie in early term fees and such, and you can still be fired at the drop of a hat.