"Harassed", "poverty wages", "no sick days" - these are the accounts shared by contractors who have worked with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Activision Blizzard.
The Activision Blizzard King Workers Alliance, better known as ABetterABK over on Twitter, recently put out a ca💃ll for contractors to shed light on "." Over a dozen current and former Activision Blizzard co🐬ntractors responded with heartbreaking stories of low wages, long hours, and the ever-present crunch.
"Harassed, discrimination, dangled full-time carrot. Was told I’d be hired afte൩r a year; laid off in 6 months," revealed , a former contract worker at Blizzard. "Stayed working on site with other contractors while FTEs had a beach day."
w🧔orked at Activision via a🍷 temp agency, making "poverty wages in one of the most expensive cities in Texas."
"No PTO [paid time off], no sick days. No job security. Insurance from our temp agenc♌y, paid per week, is half of our paycheck. All for the promise that ONE DAY, we might be FTE [full time]."
Crunch and mandato💯ry overtime is another common theme among responses, with saying she worked "12 hour 👍days, seven days a week with the odd day off here and there."
Job security is reportedly nonexistent as a contractor. found out his contract wasn't being renewed on Christmas Eve. Others were laid off well before the end of their contracts, with little or even no severance offered, they allege.
While these stories are allegations of past misconduct, it doesn't appear as if conditions have changed at all for Activision Blizzard contractors. Hours before, that contractors are "being forced to take mandatory unpaid leave during the holidays, putting them in immediate financial and housing crisis," adding that this treatment is "inhumane."
Activision Blizzard recently 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:announced a slew of changes to address ongoing worker unrest spurred by the DFEH harassment suit. A zero-tolerance policy towards harassers, increased pay visibility, and🌞 an end to forced arbitration tick off some of the demands set out by Blizzard employees, but it seems like contract workers have little to celebrate.