EA sued again?

pinkyswear

It appears that a third class-action is pending against EA, this time in Florida. The Boston law firm of Shapiro, Haber & Urmy is handling the case. http://www.shulaw.com/documents/com...20Complaint.pdf Another 'failing to pay overtime'.

Also related to EA, several articles on the rise/strategies/reminiscing of EA. There's one funny story, the others are full of interesting facts and possibly a few rumors for any of you EA fans/haters. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/14/4

 

nightphantom

Hahaha, silly EA

Vampir

who knew monopolies(or attempts at one lead to unfair worker treatment.

<cough> andrew Carinigy(google it if you dont know)

Enigma

I just read the whole court document. Good luck on winning that case, Tam Su.

He's salaried and he makes more than 23K a year. Under the current American Labor laws he wont get squat.

Here's a list of rules concerning over-time:

Rule 1: Almost all employees who make less than $455 a week ($23,660 a year) are eligible for overtime. The old rule set overtime for anyone who made less than $250 a week. The new rule applies whether the employee is blue collar or white collar, or whether they supervise people of not. The exception for this rule is teachers, doctors and lawyers. They do not get overtime, no matter what they are paid.

Now the bad news:

Rule 2: Any employee who earns more than $100,000 a year is ineligible for mandated overtime, period.

Rule 3: Any employee who earns between $23,660 and $100,000 a year, and who is in most executive, professional, or administrative positions, is not eligible for overtime. This does not, however, apply to salespeople. They are still eligible.

Rule 4: Managers are not entitled to overtime if they oversee two or more people and have the authority to hire, fire, or recommend that someone be hired or fired.

Rule 5: Administrative employees who have decision-making power and run some sort of operation are not eligible.

Rule 6: Employees whose job requires imagination, invention, originality, or artistic or creative endeavors are not eligible for overtime.

Rule 7: Employees whose main duties are computer-related and involve the implementation, analysis, development, or application of computer systems or designs are also not eligible for overtime.

Rule 8: Sales staff that regularly work outside of the employer's place of business are, you guessed it, not eligible either.

Official Labor Law site regarding OT:

http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/main.htm

Razorback

Nice Avatar pinky

Rikimaru_X

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Originally posted by En1Gma

I just read the whole court document. Good luck on winning that case, Tam Su.
He's salaried and he makes more than 23K a year. Under the current American Labor laws he wont get squat.
Here's a list of rules concerning over-time:
Rule 1: Almost all employees who make less than $455 a week ($23,660 a year) are eligible for overtime. The old rule set overtime for anyone who made less than $250 a week. The new rule applies whether the employee is blue collar or white collar, or whether they supervise people of not. The exception for this rule is teachers, doctors and lawyers. They do not get overtime, no matter what they are paid.
Now the bad news:
Rule 2: Any employee who earns more than $100,000 a year is ineligible for mandated overtime, period.
Rule 3: Any employee who earns between $23,660 and $100,000 a year, and who is in most executive, professional, or administrative positions, is not eligible for overtime. This does not, however, apply to salespeople. They are still eligible.
Rule 4: Managers are not entitled to overtime if they oversee two or more people and have the authority to hire, fire, or recommend that someone be hired or fired.
Rule 5: Administrative employees who have decision-making power and run some sort of operation are not eligible.
Rule 6: Employees whose job requires imagination, invention, originality, or artistic or creative endeavors are not eligible for overtime.
Rule 7: Employees whose main duties are computer-related and involve the implementation, analysis, development, or application of computer systems or designs are also not eligible for overtime.
Rule 8: Sales staff that regularly work outside of the employer's place of business are, you guessed it, not eligible either.
Official Labor Law site regarding OT:
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/main.htm

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LOL, i'm glad you pointed this out. In our break room we have a poster of stuff like this, and I do understand where you are coming from. You nailed it.

pinkyswear

Danke     

Vespasian

In all honesty though some of the law suits are sad, the company should take care of it's workers but 15+ mil for failing to pay overtime?  That's a bit much

 

Rikimaru_X

I thought EA makes more than enough money to pay for their workers (looking at previous lawsuits)...

pinkyswear

I don't suppose anyone but EA's accounting department really knows what kind of boat they're in as for being able to afford something, but I  would certainly think so.  Especially, during the aftermath of being sued twice for failure to pay overtime. 

You'd think they'd try to cover their bases and be a little more careful, but then again, perhaps people are just noticing that they can take down EA a little piece at a time and are jumping on the bandwagon. 

I can't claim to be an expert on either of these subjects, but I do however have a definite view on EA.  I think this conglomerate corporation sucks for greedily slurping up other companies (who made great games!)who are in financial trouble and sucking the soul of them.  That's my two pennies.