http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/87755/seeking-plaintiffs-for-class-action-lawsuit-vs-take-two-interactive/

Righetti & Glugoski, PC are seeking quality assurance testers for a (potential) class-action lawsuit from those who worked at Take Two Interactive between November 2006 and April 2007.

We all know quality assurance testers have one of the toughest jobs around but the lawsuit alleges that Take Two Interactive made testers’ jobs more difficult by: "not receiving at least minimum wage for compensation." Testers were also denied [providing] required meal and rest breaks, and Take Two Interactive failed to provide compensation when those breaks were missed.

So, several questions here:

* In the drive for tort reform, to limit needless court cases than limit the ability for businesses to perform, should employees be denied the ability to sue over what Take Two is going through here.

* Do workers have a right to restroom and meal breaks, or should this merely be determined by what the marketplace says?

* Should the government be involved in any way here and pass laws against this?  

Bathroom and meal breaks are there for a reason. Unless there is a specific reason for them to be denied (and I'd expect it to be a properly good reason to do with a highly specialised job or to do with safety) they should be enforced and if they are denied they should receive compensation for it.

Essentially in this case they were denied these breaks because quality testers are a dime a dozen - it's unskilled labour and as such they were considered expendable and therefore treated like shit. Good on them for sueing, I hope they win.

bathroom and meal breaks makes your employees more productive...at least for me it does

Yes they definitely deserve to have bathroom and meal breaks.

You can sue.. at my Job you cannot be denied Bathroom or lunch breaks.. im sure thats everywhere in NA???

Depends on the reasoning.

I thought law required employees to have two 15-min breaks and an 30 min lunch during an 8 hour shift

They definitely should.

Socialism. Weak sauce socialism for people who aren't truly grateful to have employment!

Take them for all their worth. Companies that don't treat their employees like people shouldn't be allowed to operate.