Just shy of 2 weeks after Tomonobu Itagaki left Tecmo pursuing a US$1.4 million damages claim, the 300 other staff at Tecmo have decided to take action against the company.
The new lawsuit has been brought about by the staff because for the past 4 years they have not been paid for overtime. This is because Tecmo switched to a flexible working practice at which point it stopped paying overtime. However, the staff are claiming they were still putting over 100 hours of overtime in each month, but have been left without compensation for their hard work.
If that wasn’t enough, the company has also been accused of creating false documents in order to cover up the accounts of the company and presumably the time employees were working.
The lawsuit is with the Tokyo District Court and Tecmo is now being investigated with regards to its employment policies.
When we reported on Itagaki-san leaving I said the key members of his team at Tecmo would likely follow him wherever he goes. There is now a much greater chance of that happening and Tecmo even ceasing to exist. It looks like they have seriously messed up and could face huge claims against them by both employees and the Japanese government.
Read more at Kotaku.com
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