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GAME staff discovered zero hours contracts move via mass Microsoft Teams calls


Staff members were told of GAME's impending change to force staff onto zero hours contracts, first reported yesterday b…

The company's various Area Managers - exempt from the change - held the calls yesterday, with local employees instructed to join. "I think it's been handled very disrespectfully, we were basically told shut up and listen," one current staff member said, "then quickly hung up on with them passing all the responsibility to our Cluster Managers." Eurogamer understands the move has indeed been in the planning for some time, with a growing pool of newer staff recruited on zero hours "Cast Member" contracts over the past year.

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