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[Prospero]

Old? Search for "EA overtime" turned up nothing.

New York Times (reg. req.)

Electronic Arts, based in Redwood City, Calif., has become the focal point of a debate over whether technology companies are exploiting workers by demanding long hours and using on-campus fringe benefits while skimping on tangible benefits like overtime pay, and rewarding worker loyalty by sending jobs to cheaper labor overseas.

Electronic Arts, responding to this financial shift and to its labor critics, plans to announce this week that it will depart from tradition by beginning to pay overtime to some workers. Those workers would no longer be eligible for options or bonuses.

 

[sc0la]

60$ next gen games keep EAs pockets fat.

 

[DarienA]

Next thing you know they'll be letting anyone sit in the front of the EA buses....

EA giveth:

Electronic Arts, responding to this financial shift and to its labor critics, plans to announce this week that it will depart from tradition by beginning to pay overtime to some workers.

EA taketh:

Those workers would no longer be eligible for options or bonuses.

WTF.

So if you work overtime to complete a project and it sells gangbusters... you get no benefits but the overtime pay... brilliant...

 

[GDJustin]

Not new... although not strictly old. Its a repackaging of old info

EA has been saying since December or so that they were going to be "Reclassifying" some overtime in 2005 and rethinking how their overtime system works.

 

[AirBrian]

Giving OT but taking away benefits is just wrong (unless I'm reading this incorrectly). I can usually understand EA's point of view towards competitors and its' actions, but treating employees like this is beyond words.

 

[Attack You]

Ahh... Job security, or sanity? A classic battle.