2 more Tecmo Employees Sue Tecmo

[PhaperPlane]

Looks like 2 more jump on the band wagon now, each employee are suing them for 8.3 Million Yen. The reason? The workers were placed illegally on a "Flexible hours" work scheme, which happened four years ago, and that their overtime wasn't paid. Also, these 2 represent the 300 Employees also and they started "Tecmo Labor Union". Many have reported that Tecmo has made false reports and covered up others. If you got stock for Tecmo, sell it now. Things are looking pretty bad.

 

 

 

I would post the source, but it has a swear word in the URL. Go onto Kotaku. ;)

[Nadril]

There's a rumor that a lot of employees are leaving to start a new company away from Tecmo.

[Necromagus]

This isn't the first time a major game design studio got into trouble over its labour policies. There was a pretty major incident with EA a few years ago too. I guess this is bound to happen with a relatively new business suddenly becoming so huge pretty much overnight.

[limpbizkit]

Theres ALWAYS more than one source.

 

http://news.filefront.com/rumor-three-d ... e-itagaki/

 

So make sure you don't use such a bad excuse and make me search Google just to see if true or not.

[runescapeloser22]

Tecmo is owned.

[Bluejayfan94]

Theres ALWAYS more than one source.

 

http://news.filefront.com/rumor-three-d ... e-itagaki/

 

So make sure you don't use such a bad excuse and make me search Google just to see if true or not.

 

 

 

Lol, thats very... mean

[limpbizkit]

Theres ALWAYS more than one source.

 

http://news.filefront.com/rumor-three-d ... e-itagaki/

 

So make sure you don't use such a bad excuse and make me search Google just to see if true or not.

 

 

 

Lol, thats very... mean

 

 

 

Well the last news by phaper also came without a source. -.-

[Nadril]

http://www.dsfanboy.com/2008/06/17/all- ... ing-tecmo/

 

All 300 employees suing Tecmo

 

Or, at least, representatives of all 300. As hard as it may be to believe, Team Ninja's departure isn't the worst thing to happen to Tecmo this week. The two executive officers of their labor union have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, claiming, as both Tomonobu Itagaki and Team Ninja (reportedly) have, that Tecmo owes them unpaid wages. Evidently, Tecmo used an illegal "flexible hours" pay scheme that denied employees overtime.

 

 

 

We would imagine that if Tecmo has to pay all these lawsuits out, they're done. It puts the future of their upcoming games -- Tecmo Bowl Kickoff, Monster Farm DS 2, the Rygar Wii port, and the Mighty Bomb Jack revival that only existed in our minds anyway. Beyond that stuff, it's sad to see such a classic game company on its way out, and it's terrible for all those employees whose jobs may be over (though perhaps they'll end up moving to a company who pays them).

 

 

 

Tecmo's response to Famitsu states that they have (coincidentally) phased out the flexi-time this year, and that they were "consulting with an external specialist to ensure compliance with labour laws" while devising their systems. The Tecmo rep said that the company had discussed the unpaid wages with its employees in April, and that Tecmo was "currently calculating those unpaid wages."

 

 

 

 

 

Good to see that they are all leaving. Hopefully Team Ninja will simply reform elsewhere.