A U.K. employment tribunal has rejected a request for interim pay from former Rockstar Games workers who are challenging their dismissal from the Take-Two (TTWO) subsidiary late last year, claiming that they were terminated from their positions for unionizing, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports. The fired staff, working with the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain, were seeking to get back on the “Grand Theft Auto” maker’s payroll as the legal process continues to play out, but employment Judge Frances Eccles ruled that the fired staff had not shown a “pretty good chance of success” at persuading the court that their dismissals were for union membership or organizing, the author notes.
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