A UK employment tribunal has rejected a request from Rockstar Games sacked employees to receive interim pay while they await a full hearing over their dismissal. bloomberg And IGN. After Rockstar laid off 34 employees last year – 31 from the UK and three from Canada – the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) accused the company of “union busting”. Rockstar claims that the fired employees were leaking company information in the Discord channel.
The hearing took place for two days last week. “Despite being denied interim relief today, we come away from last week’s hearing more confident than ever that a full and substantive tribunal will find Rockstar’s deliberate attempt to crush a union not only unjust but unlawful,” IWGB president Alex Marshall said in a statement. “The fact that we were granted this hearing speaks to the strength of our case and that throughout the two-day hearing, Rockstar consistently failed to support or refute claims made in the press that they acted unfairly, maliciously and in violation of their own processes.”
“We regret that we were put in a situation where termination was necessary, but we stand by our action supported by the outcome of this hearing,” a Rockstar Games spokesperson said in a statement to Bloomberg and IGN. Rockstar and owner Take-Two did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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