19th May 2022, 5:10 AM
The focus on indie developers was championed by Dan Adelman. That guy did wonders for Nintendo's shift in focus and in helping to eliminate some rather terrible royalty practices during the Wii days.
Contractors... Now that's a thorny issue. So thorny...
You see, right now companies across every industry are using "contract labor" as a workaround to actually giving employees due compensation. They're setting up contracts for people who still end up working exclusively for them most of the year. That's NOT what contract labor is for. Contract labor, chiefly, was intended for people who do one-off jobs. You know, like construction workers and the like. It was not ever intended as a substitute arrangement for long term exclusive employment, but as worker rights get fought for, more and more often people are being hired as "contract workers" for things like secretary work and so on, where they're expected to come in and clock in every day at the office.
That, I believe is ENTIRELY the case here. These aren't people hired to poor concrete once and then it's off to their next great adventure. These are long term employees who should NEVER have been hired as contract workers in the first place. I believe this because if it was a one off thing, they wouldn't be organizing to form a union around Nintendo's treatment of them specifically. The very fact that it's contract workers doing this shows that NOA is in the wrong in at least the way they hired them in the first place.
Queue "No one's putting a gun to their head" excuses...
Contractors... Now that's a thorny issue. So thorny...
You see, right now companies across every industry are using "contract labor" as a workaround to actually giving employees due compensation. They're setting up contracts for people who still end up working exclusively for them most of the year. That's NOT what contract labor is for. Contract labor, chiefly, was intended for people who do one-off jobs. You know, like construction workers and the like. It was not ever intended as a substitute arrangement for long term exclusive employment, but as worker rights get fought for, more and more often people are being hired as "contract workers" for things like secretary work and so on, where they're expected to come in and clock in every day at the office.
That, I believe is ENTIRELY the case here. These aren't people hired to poor concrete once and then it's off to their next great adventure. These are long term employees who should NEVER have been hired as contract workers in the first place. I believe this because if it was a one off thing, they wouldn't be organizing to form a union around Nintendo's treatment of them specifically. The very fact that it's contract workers doing this shows that NOA is in the wrong in at least the way they hired them in the first place.
Queue "No one's putting a gun to their head" excuses...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)