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EA Settles Overtime Lawsuit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday April 26, 2006 @06:47AM from the dust-settles-for-ea-spouse dept.

Heffenfeffer writes "Gamasutra reports that Electronic Arts is settling their class action suit with their programmers to the tune of $14.9 million. It also turns out that one of the named plaintiffs of said lawsuit was the spouse of the formerly anonymous blogger "ea_spouse" who wrote a scathing commentary on EA over a year ago which may have formed the basis of this suit."

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cat "got" my tongue. by sirius+sam · 2006-04-26 06:59 · Score: 4, Insightful

The games industry can pay low wages and make people slave because it's "cool" and people want to be in it. Sad really.
1. Re:cat "got" my tongue. by s16le · 2006-04-26 07:05 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  It is easy to say that people should not accept a job, or that they can quit. However, if they have a family to support, or have a medical condition and need the money or insurance coverage, not having a job for a few weeks while they find a new one might not be an option.
Re:Shocking... by Jaysyn · 2006-04-26 07:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

The real suprize is that EA lost, especially in this employee-hostile day & age...

Jaysyn

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