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In New Zealand video game workers have no employment rights. Along with workers on film sets We call it the "Warner Brothers' Law"
by worik 4y ago
In New Zealand video game workers have no employment rights. Along with workers on film sets
We call it the "Warner Brothers' Law"
- dangerboysteve 4y agoI would have thought it would have been called the Peter Jackson Law.
- worik 4y agoHobbit Law sometimes: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/01/29/78965/the-hobbit-law-there-and-back-again https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/01/29/78965/the-hobbit-law-t... The actual law: https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2010/0120/latest/whole.html https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2010/0120/latest/whol...
- bovermyer 4y agoI remember back when I was a level designer for a New Zealand video game company, I was paid $150 NZD per day, and that was my entire compensation. No benefits. That was twenty years ago, though.
- worik 4y agoThe dispute that started the process to change the law was (if my memory serves) over a "model maker" making $NZ17 an hour back in 2010. Hardly big money. https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-proposed-laws/document/00DBHOH_BILL10433_1/tab/digest https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-propose...
- thinkmcfly 4y agoPeter Jackson's thumb
- FredPret 4y agoOr middle finger