Get the latest tech news

Company that provided QA testing to Activision accused of unfair practices after 160 people laid off


The Communications Workers of America (CWA), one of America's largest unions, has filed Unfair Labour Practice charges against Lionbridge Technologies.

Watch on YouTube In addition, the CWA stated Lionbridge had offered workers a severance package which "required them to agree to overly broad confidentiality terms and to waive rights protected under the National Labor Relations Act". It noted that those in Mexico and Poland "continue to work", despite what Lionbridge told the Idaho team about the project coming to an end. This particular batch of layoffs reportedly happened "shortly after workers finalised a first collectively bargained contract with the company", with the CWA stating: "That unit also provided subcontracted labour to Microsoft."

Get the Android app

Or read this on Eurogamer

Read more on:

Photo of Activision

Activision

Photo of Company

Company

Photo of people

people

Related news:

News photo

A homemade cell tower allowed fraudsters in the UK to bombard people with scam texts

News photo

Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month

News photo

Tim Cook Controls the iPhone, So He’s the New AI Kingmaker. Apple’s deal with OpenAI acknowledges the company is behind on artificial intelligence, but make no mistake, it’s temporary outsourcing.