http://dungeonrun.com/2006/04/26/ea-spouse-identity-and-story/ How is your gaming kung foo? Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:44:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://dungeonrun.com/2006/04/26/ea-spouse-identity-and-story/#comment-306 Programmers Win Class Action Against EA at foogaming Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:49:42 +0000 http://dungeonrun.com/2006/04/26/ea-spouse-identity-and-story/#comment-306 [...] Yesterday we reported the unveiling of EA Spouse, the lady who uncovered a brutal policy of overworking their programmers working on games without pay. Now Gamasutra has word that a class-action lawsuit about the incident was won by the programmers and EA have to pay $14.9 million settlement. According to the new settlement, some of the entry level programmers will be reclassified as hourly workers, making them eligible for overtime pay. In return, they will be allowed a one time grant of restricted company stock, but will no longer receive stock options or bonuses. [...] […] Yesterday we reported the unveiling of EA Spouse, the lady who uncovered a brutal policy of overworking their programmers working on games without pay. Now Gamasutra has word that a class-action lawsuit about the incident was won by the programmers and EA have to pay $14.9 million settlement. According to the new settlement, some of the entry level programmers will be reclassified as hourly workers, making them eligible for overtime pay. In return, they will be allowed a one time grant of restricted company stock, but will no longer receive stock options or bonuses. […]

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