A group of YouTube Music staff found out that they had been made redundant while speaking at a council meeting in Texas, urging councillors to support them in their efforts to get the Google-owned company to negotiate with their union. Google says they were contractors whose agreements have expired
I feel like Google just needs to give their employees the list of employees they’re keeping at this point just rip the Bandaid right off and be done. It feels like every other week there’s enormous layoffs from these big tech companies…
It’s probably too complicated to do it all at once. By the time they finally figure it out, they already want to do more and the cycle repeats and never ends… although maybe thats the solution. They want to do so many layoffs that they can’t do them all at once (but have to) and end up in a perpetual never ready to do layoffs situation, so no one gets laid off!
Magic!
There’s a percentage (of their workforce) that if companies cross it while doing layoffs, they are required to give a pretty big notice to the employees before laying them off. I think maybe 60 or 90 days?
There’s several other criteria as well, such as the company being a certain size, and it has to be a high enough percentage of employees at that specific location. But this is part of why you’ll hear about several layoff cycles within a year at one company instead of all at once.
Most companies that do meet the criteria just pay out the employees in lieu of the notice, which is allowed, but avoiding paying at all is definitely a motivator to avoid doing bigger rounds of layoffs.