A UK employment tribunal has rejected a request by sacked Rockstar Games employees to receive interim pay while they await a full hearing on their dismissal, according to . Bloomberg And Ign. After Rockstar laid off 34 employees last year – 31 from the UK and three from Canada. Rockstar claims that the fired employees were leaking company information in a Discord channel.
The hearing was held over two days last week. “Despite today’s denial of interim relief, we are more confident than ever since last week’s hearing that a full and substantive tribunal will find Rockstar’s union effort to be not only illegal, but illegal,” IWGB president Alex Marshall said in a statement. “The fact that we were granted this hearing speaks to the strength of our case and, over the course of the two-day hearing, Rockstar consistently failed to support or refute claims made in the press that they acted unfairly, maliciously, and in violation of their due process.”
“We regret that we were put in a position where dismissal was necessary, but we support our process as well as the outcome of this hearing,” a Rockstar Games spokesperson said in a statement. Bloomberg And Ign. Rockstar and owner Take Two did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Rockstar is working Grand Theft Auto viwhich was recently delayed from its planned May launch on November 19.
