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Staff at UK retailer Phones 4u have been told that their wages are likely to be curtailed as hope for the troubled company begins to fade. The Independent reports that an internal document sent to the chain’s 5,596 staff says that while they will still be paid as administrators PwC …
Read More »Crytek UK staff down tools in pay dispute, report claims
A large number of employees at the Crytek UK office have staged a walkout and are no longer going to work, according to a report. People familiar with the situation” have toldKotakuthat employees have handed in formal grievance letters and stopped working.One source claimed that as many as 100 people …
Read More »No full pay for Crytek UK staff since April
A number of staff at Crytek UK have not been paid their full salary since April 21st, a source connected to the matter has told MCV’s sister siteDevelop. The source, who has ties with the studio, said since April employees had received small payments of around 700 last month. At …
Read More »Top Sony exec to skip bonuses and cut wages as fourth annual loss nears
Sony is expected to report its fourth annual loss in succession tomorrow. The Wall Street Journal reports that as a result chief executive Kazuo Hirai and some of the company’s other top bosses are to forgo their bonuses and take a 50 per cent cut in pay. All of which …
Read More »Amazon depots face GMB union protests
Members of the GMB union will tomorrow (Feb 13th) stage a number of demonstrations across nine of Amazon’s UK depots. Retail Week reports that the dispute concerns staff wages, which are 6.20 an hour – one penny above the UK minimum wage. Disquiet about the pay rates has intensified since …
Read More »GAME Group collapse assets could leave creditors £131.2m out of pocket
Administrator PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that the financial gulf left by the demise of GAME Group will total 131.2m, according to documents obtained by MCV. The company’s most valuable asset was Gamestation, which had a book value of 86.2m. This compares to GAME’s book value of 37m. GAME’s Czech Republic operations were …
Read More »Former GAME workers furious at late wage admission
Nearly two thousand former GAME and Gamestation staff in the UK have only discovered today that they will not receive either payment for their notice periods or redundancy. Staff at GAME’s Northern Irish stores were given the same bad news earlier this week. What has irked most for those who …
Read More »UK games industry shamed by male/female pay gap
Female games industry professionals earn 1.50 less an hour than men. Shocking results from MCV’s yearly salary survey show the pay gap between male and female professionals has widened in the UK – just three years after we reported that women earned more. Our research showed that the average yearly …
Read More »MCV’s 2012 UK Games Industry Salary Survey – The Results
What are you worth? We canvassed 1,000 industry workers about careers, salaries and job prospects. Here are the results. AVERAGE UK GAMES INDUSTRY YEARLY SALARY: 33,123 TOPLINE ANALYSIS & METHODOLOGY: THIS YEAR, our salary survey shows a sharp rise of over ten per cent in the average UK games industry …
Read More »Sony freezes staff wages
As part of its ongoing drive to cut costs amidst the tough global economic climate, Sony has announced that it is to put a freeze on staff wages for the year beginning April 2009, Reuters reports. Japanese paper Nikkei has stated that in addition worker’s bonuses will be lowered from …
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