>>66849353One: you can only terminate an employment contract for terms set out in the contract itself. This is typically restricted to violating the contract's terms. What can actually go into a contract is pretty strictly defined by court precedent--you can't agree to waive your employment rights in a contract for example. A contract is mutually binding, the company is as bound to its terms as the employee and both have recourse if the other fails to uphold their end.
Two: Contracts are renewed on a periodical basis (yearly, usually). There's no reason to terminate a contract for poor performance when you can instead simply wait out its duration and choose not to renew it. Talents make a % of their channel's revenue rather than a base pay rate, meaning that Cover is never losing money by keeping a talent on staff. Terminating that talent's channel DOES eliminate all possible revenue, however. Their payment scheme is one of the reasons that Cover can afford to keep low-performing talents on for years and years or have talents take indefinite hiatus, there's no financial incentive to cull affiliated talents.
Three: Even if poor performance was the cause, it would not mandate the removal of the channel (and all possible revenue it could generate), a public notice of termination and the talent not having the oppourtunity to graduate officially. Cover doesn't stand to benefit from any of those things unless its done purely as a disciplinary action to enforce the terms of its contract (and thus protect itself legally)
There's no reason to assume that this was motivated by anything other than banal disciplinary action for some unknown but unfortunate breach of contract terms.
