A plea from fired Rockstar employees for temporary pay has been rejected

A UK employment tribunal has rejected a request from sacked Rockstar Games employees for temporary pay while they await a full hearing into their dismissal, according to the British Daily Mail. Bloomberg and IGN. After Rockstar fired 34 employees last year – 31 from the UK and three from Canada – the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union… The company was accused of “union busting.”. Rockstar claims the fired employees were as well Leaking company information On the Discord channel

The hearing was held over two days last week. “Despite today’s denial of interim relief, we emerged from last week’s hearing more confident than ever that a full and objective court will find that Rockstar’s calculated attempt to crush the union is not only unfair but unlawful,” IWGB President Alex Marshall said in a statement. “The fact that we got this hearing speaks to the strength of our case, and over the course of the two-day hearing, Rockstar consistently failed to support the allegations made in the press or refute that they acted unfairly, maliciously, and in violation of their own procedures.”

“We regret that we were placed in a position where dismissal was necessary, but we stand by our course of action as supported by the outcome of this hearing,” a Rockstar Games spokesperson said in statements to Bloomberg and IGN. Rockstar and owner Take-Two did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rockstar is working on Grand Theft Auto VIwhich was recently postponed from its planned launch in May Until November 19.