In the press release underline Cecilia D’Anastasio and Bloomberg’s Jason Schrier’s Activision Blizzard has introduced the conversion of temporary contracts to full-time permanent contracts for thousands of American contractors appointed by Quality Assurance, which will significantly increase their salaries in the process. They were employed there for a long time and intended to leave the position after the contract expired, but things seem to have turned in their favor!
Comfort of thousands of employees after hard work
For many years, the video game publisher has been harshly criticized and chosen. Reason ? It is heavily used and depends on its highly questionable statuses, including thousands of part-time workers who pay little heed to the quality assurance pillar. It is also a fairly common practice in the video game industry, which is growing every year.
- ᲮQuality Guarantee: Simply put, it is (as the name suggests) a pillar dedicated to making the end product acceptable and marketable. The staff in this section of Activision Blizzard verifies the content of your favorite video games before they are released to the general public.
Here alone, the company terminated another 20 temporary contracts for pay before converting 500 of those temporary jobs to full-time last December. A wave of anger ensued and many testers from the Raven Software studio (Call of Duty, Wolfenstein) chose to unite in protest against the dismissal deemed unfair.
After weeks of struggle, 1,100 temporary workers are finally not only seeing their contracts become full-time instead of part-time, but also enjoying an increase in their minimum wage, which is now $20 an hour . A big step for those who are interested! According to Bloomberg, this change will increase the number of employees in the Activision Games Publishing branch by 25%!
The battle continues for Raven Software
Unfortunately for Raven Software, the war is not over yet. One of the union delegatesThis change will follow the process that began last year“Activision Blizzard disagrees with studio staff’s anger over this announcement.
One of the publishers’ spokespersons explained that in fact Kuzgun workers would not benefit from the conversion of this contract.Due to legal obligations under national labor law“Finally added this”Featured employees opting in have nothing to do with Activision QA employee pay raises“.
The link made by Raven Software has not yet been acknowledged by Activision Blizzard, and the National Labor Board has not yet made that decision.
Source : Millenium
