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We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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i thought this was the law? Edit: oh only in CA

It’s worth noting many CA BuzzFeed employees (including myself) signed the petition.

Max, what is your take on what's going on? Would love an insider's perspective, to the extent that you're comfortable with giving it.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s worth noting many CA BuzzFeed employees (including myself) signed the petition.

Max, what is your take on what's going on? Would love an insider's perspective, to the extent that you're comfortable with giving it.

Other BF employees on Twitter (and recently-laid off employees) attest to the current mood better than I can. https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40B...

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?

You missed that people are employed with rights to accrue leave, but only some have it bound in states rights laws and that BuzzFeed is trying to avoid honouring the spirit of employment conditions their staff worked under?

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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There’s just one paragraph missing. If PTO isn’t paid out on termination, then PTO cannot be safely accrued. The undersigned should state that this behavior leaves them with no choice but to draw down their PTO balance, perhaps starting a specific day next week. But I wonder if the employees that weren’t in a state which requires paying out PTO balances had expected to be paid their PTO balance? Usually this is one o…

I am guessing they didn't expect to get laid off. Employment contracts can be tricky to negotiate, since at that point you usually want the job. It also isn't something most people do regularly or even know much about. Especially not if they are relatively young.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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post #14

The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?

You missed that people are employed with rights to accrue leave, but only some have it bound in states rights laws and that BuzzFeed is trying to avoid honouring the spirit of employment conditions their staff worked under?

I think they’re saying if they played loose with ethics in their management encouraging suspect reporting that one can expect the same ethics when it comes to their business end of things.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?

Citations for those claims, are what's missing.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?

To a certain degree, what goes around comes around. In general Buzzfeed is a purveyor of fake news so the silver lining is that it will develop a reputation as an employer.

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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The same people who wouldn't think twice about some PC expose that ruins a person's life forever, same people will fight for a couple days vacation time... Before you down-vote, what am I missing?

> what am I missing?

That this is about Buzzfeed News, a serious news site which has won serveral awards and honors for its reporting [1], not Buzzfeed, the listicle, pop culture, click-bait, gossip site [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed

Re: We demand BuzzFeed pay out earned paid time off to its recent laid-off employees

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You missed that people are employed with rights to accrue leave, but only some have it bound in states rights laws and that BuzzFeed is trying to avoid honouring the spirit of employment conditions their staff worked under?

I think they’re saying if they played loose with ethics in their management encouraging suspect reporting that one can expect the same ethics when it comes to their business end of things.

Yea.. that would make sense: be careful who you work for, lest the conditions of employment turn out to reflect a side of things you normally saw turned on others?
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