Employee relations

Sega The workers at Sega are the latest game developers to embrace unionization, as employees at Sega of America have just voted to unionize. We first learned that workers at Sega of America wanted to unionize in April to improve their pay, benefits, and work hours, per Axios. A group of employees from departments like marketing, localization, testing, and product development began working with the Nation Labor Relations Board and Communication Workers of America to unionize then. Sega of America management decided…

Twitter owner Elon Musk is facing yet another lawsuit claiming he was too busy trying to fire half the company he didn’t give his former tweeps the legally required two months of notice. On Tuesday, ex-Twitter contract workers filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the blue bird app and their former employer TEKsystems Inc. The former contractors claim Twitter did not grant them the mandatory 60 days advance notice before laying them off.The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?The lawsuit does not describe…

Non-disparagement agreements are a business’ attempt at silencing an employee in exchange for a few weeks of severance payImage: Yuricazac (Shutterstock)National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo has officially stated that employers cannot offer non-disparagement agreements in severance packages and that any previous non-disparagement agreements are void. In other words, the NLRB has made it official that after you move on from your place of employment, you can get away with openly talking trash …

You like your vacation days? You like your little paid scraps of freedom, personal leave, and sick time that allow you to indulge in frivolous human needs like going to the doctor, seeing faraway family, or resting when ill? Well then, you better not fall behind at work, because all of it could legally disappear in an instant, according to a new U.S. court ruling. Employers are allowed to dock salaried employees’ paid time off, three 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals judges unanimously decided on Wednesday, in a first of its…