Vivendi games unit sued in overtime dispute

[CelticHound]

I don't know the law in California but in the EU we have a maximum legal working week.

I'll start by admitting this is anecdotal and hearsay, but when I was working in EDA, there were stories from an engineer working for a certain large French tech company (so not Vivendi) when a new (35 hour?) workweek law went into effect. Essentially, he was told "Yes , your workweek is only 35 hours now, but we still expect you to get the same amount of work done. How is up to you." The result being "voluntary" unpaid overtime.

kandrathe, I was always under the impression that games programmers made less than other programming jobs, because the coolness of the job itself was part of the compensation.

Also, though the CA laws seem tough, they've been loopholed for the lobbies that have spent the money to rent politicians. For example: http://www.andreas.com/faq-overtime.html

-- CH