| the_dengle said: Uh, one would think part of the settlement would require Konami to stop doing the thing they were sued for doing, right? Why would they be doing this if it was directly costing them money? Why would they do it if they knew it was downright illegal and had already been prosecuted for it? This report is vague and unsubstantiated. It's more likely the report itself is false than that Konami is somehow getting away with such illegal activities or continuing to use illegal practices despite being sued for them. I'll settle for something in the middle: the report is true, but the internet is blowing it out of proportion, it isn't as bad as people are making it sound, it certainly isn't illegal. |
Whose to say they haven't toned things down it may have been worse for all we know plus a settlement would be between the individual and the company it would have no bearing on anyone else who hasn't taken issue, not only that some companies operate in an intimidating manner towards their workers to make it seem like the's little choice, Konami wouldn't announce to everyone "Yeah Toshiro wanted to sue the socks off us and we had to settle outside of court otherwise we would have been taken to the cleaners and had to pay his legal fees as well" otherwise more people would step forward. Believe me many companies often do things that bend or break the law it's just a case of when they get clocked for it.
The report could be false although the are several things backing it and one of them is the history of Team Silent who endured a non to pleasent time by Konami during development of the first Silent Hill, some of the workers they'd didn't even want to credit with work or pay at the time, the report also cites a news interview from a former employee which also backs it. I can tell you that if I told one of my workers to take a security role I would have broken the law here in the UK as that's a regulated post someone has to be trained up for over here, if something happened to them while they're filling in that post that would be a huge problem for the company.
Ofcourse the internet is going to see the more extreme side especially as Konami for a while have had a reputation as a place with a less then desired work place and now after the whole Kojima saga blew things open people are more likely going to support the workers then the companies as making noise over an issue to bring it out to the open can do a lot in contributing to solving it.
