EA settles overtime lawsuit with $15 million payoff

[NFS4]

pwned

 

[geno]

$15 Mil because they didn't get paid OT? WTF!? How many of them are there?

 

[Kelemvor]

This is for a whole group of people. EA was in the news before because they'd force their people to work 80+ hour weeks and only pay them their 40hr/week salary. I'm glad the court sided with the employees.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Good news but...

The USD 15.6 million payment will be distributed amongst all class members and their lawyers.

:thumbsdown:

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg
Good news but...

The USD 15.6 million payment will be distributed amongst all class members and their lawyers.

:thumbsdown:

WTF, you thought they'd do it for FREE??

Sheesh, if a doctor performs surgery on you, somebody is gonna get paid...right?

 

[Homerboy]

NFS4, didn't you know all lawyers are evil!??!?!
TO HELL WITH THEM!

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Won't stop EA from doing it again.

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: mAdMaLuDaWg
Good news but...

The USD 15.6 million payment will be distributed amongst all class members and their lawyers.

:thumbsdown:

WTF, you thought they'd do it for FREE??

Sheesh, if a doctor performs surgery on you, somebody is gonna get paid...right?

hahaha.. what i was getting at is that the people who were actually affected by this whole ordeal aren't going to get all that much

 

[mAdMaLuDaWg]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Won't stop EA from doing it again.

No it won't... in fact they are just going to move their jobs to China

 

[Demon-Xanth]

$15.6M is nothing to them.

 

[sonz70]

a token penalty, slap on the wrist, means nothing *shrug*

 

[purbeast0]

i was seriously considering applying for an EA job down in Florida until all this crap about EA came to the public 🙁

 

[Connoisseur]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
i was seriously considering applying for an EA job down in Florida until all this crap about EA came to the public 🙁

Yeah I work consulting and i'm used to 60-70 hour weeks for maybe a month straight. But I was reading the EA-Spouse article and that's just plain disgusting. Requiring employees to work 80-90 hours for months on end with absolutely no overtime is damn near sweat-shop status.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Funny thing is there are still Elite(ist) members on the forum that deny it ever happened, and praise EA for being a wonderful company.

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Funny thing is there are still Elite(ist) members on the forum that deny it ever happened, and praise EA for being a wonderful company.

EA is wonderful??? :Q

 

[rh71]

those suckas got served.

 

[alien42]

funny, a friend of mine worked for EA for a while and he showed up late and only a couple of days a week for a total work week of 10-15 hours and then would turn in his time sheet with 10-20 hours of overtime and got paid for it, lol.