Submitted 4 months ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to workreform@lemmy.world
That Bethesda Union looking even better now.
That employee needs to get over her simping mentality and sue for the gender discrimination Bungie is blatantly guilty of. I don’t give a shit if they happened to be doing a mass layoff at the same time; you don’t get rid of somebody right before their already-scheduled maternity leave!
I’m not sure you have a case if the percentage of women on maternity leave in the fired group is roughly the same as in the non-fired group.
If it isn’t illegal to fire people taking maternity leave specifically, which I don’t think it is in the US, you’re out of luck. The only illegal thing is firing people because of maternity leave. Since there was a mass layoff, it can easily be argued that the maternity leave was not the reason.
The US needs better labor laws, and thus unions. An individual can’t do anything against it.
There are two possibilities. Either:
The decision to lay the person off was made before the maternity leave was scheduled, in which case I’d argue she has a case for detrimental reliance, or
The decision to lay the person off was made after the maternity leave was scheduled, in which case a prima facie assumption is fair to make that the taking of leave obviously colored the supervisor’s evaluation and contributed to the layoff, and the burden is on the employer to prove otherwise.
In fact, there’s an argument to be made that they must terminate her, because Terminating everybody but those with scheduled maternity leave has a disparate impact on employees who are not pregnant.
Seriously? It happened to someone I used to work with (last November). Except they laid her off while she was on maternity leave.
My wife was at home for 3 months before the birth of our child and 2 years afterward. I always considered that not enough.
I can’t imagine living in a country where you could be laid off before or even worse during your maternity leave.
Your former coworker should sue, too.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again (even though I’m not a big fan of bungie’s sketchy business practices and gameplay decisions). ALL GAME STUDIOS NEED TO FOLLOW BETHESDAS EXAMPLE AND UNIONIZE.
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Destiny 2 is where I stopped giving a shit about anything Bungie does…
That would be destiny 1 season pass for me. Why am i paying for what’s on the disc twice…?
I’m not a console player, so I had to wait till the sequel to have that shit happen.
With Destiny 2 they kept releasing expansion packs every five seconds and actively removing older content from the game making me not sure which expansion packs will actually do anything, and confusing the shit out of newer players who can’t keep up with the lore because older story missions were removed.
I liked the base game, but… then we had like 3 expansion packs drop in 6 months, and in that time we had to migrate the accounts from Blizzard to Steam, and all the packs were about the price of a whole new game…
They dragged me in to the MMOFPS concept, and immediately kicked me out when I didn’t want to whale. Or at least, that’s what it felt like
They lost me after Halo Reach.
It was great in the beginning. But yeah I’m not sure why anyone trusts the leadership who pulled a bait and switch on their customers.
Really need to have a clear definition of “stay afloat”
Stockholm syndrome, man…
That really is understated and underfocused on. They’re trying to save face and be hire-able, but the reality is that “stay afloat” means millions spent on vintage cars while people like that family struggle towards their future. Stay afloat my ass. It’s the sneering face of evil greed that equates to “staying afloat”.
Just trying to survive, man… Paycheck to paycheck (that’s thrown into Uncle Scrooges money bin).
Right but this was before maternity leave started. I’m saying that promises of mat leave are important at conception and nowhere on earth does a company end up on the hook for maintaining their mat leave policy based on when you conceived
Relying on maternity money from a company is really some third world shit.
If the company offers it the company must make good on the promise come time. That’s all I’m saying.
Free healthcare is obviously a requirement for civilization, as is maternal leave.
I’m saying that the companies themselves cannot have empty promises like this. The act of conception was at very least influenced by the company’s offer of maternal leave.
They should be on the hook - Make good what you have promised.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 months ago
Pete Parsons thanks all the plebs who lost their job. If the plebs didn’t lose their jobs, Pete Parsons would not be able to buy 24 cars.
madcat451@lemmy.world 4 months ago
chknbwl@lemmy.world 4 months ago
✋ I’ll bring the Styrofoam and gasoline.
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
If you put explosives into the cone-shaped bottom of a wine bottle, it will make a shaped charge that can wreck an engine block.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You can also just pour sand into the gas tank.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He also thinks if they find out they’ll kill him which is why his twitter is private so he can brag in person
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
That’s as many as 2.4 tens. And that’s terrible.