Rockstar firings are a "deeply concerning case" that'll be looked into, says UK prime minister Keir Starmer

Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP Chris Murray raised the contented successful the House of Commons

Rockstar Games' firing of much than 30 workers conscionable implicit a period agone has erstwhile again been brought up by UK politicians, with premier curate Keir Starmer calling it a "deeply concerning case" which volition beryllium looked into by authorities ministers. Rockstar person been accused of national busting by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain implicit the firings, with the national having filed ineligible claims against the company.

The dismissals reportedly followed a treatment connected a union-focused Discord server successful which unit cited emails from Rockstar astir changes to the company's interior Slack policies.

That brings america to a league successful the House of Commons today, December 10th. Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP Chris Murray raised the contented of the firings, saying: "Having met Rockstar [about the firings], they failed to reassure maine they are pursuing employment instrumentality and I stock concerns astir national busting." He past asked Starmer if the large food agrees that each institution has to travel employment instrumentality and that workers person the close to unionise.

"It's a profoundly concerning case," replied the premier minister. "Every idiosyncratic has the close to articulation a commercialized national and we're determined to fortify workers' rights and guarantee they don't look unfair consequences for being portion of a union. Ministers volition look into the peculiar lawsuit the subordinate raises and volition support him updated."

We'll person to spot if thing comes of that looking into things, but it is noteworthy that Murray said he'd travel retired of gathering with the steadfast with reservations arsenic to whether Rockstar's firings were justified. Murray has shared much item astir his gathering with Rockstar successful a connection sent to IGN. "The gathering began with america arsenic MPs refused introduction unless an NDA [non-disclosure agreement] was signed, a petition they yet withdrew aft it being made wide this would not beryllium signed," helium said.

"The gathering lone entrenched my concerns astir the process Rockstar utilized to disregard truthful galore of their unit members," the MP continued. "I was not assured their process paid robust attraction to UK employment law, I was not convinced that this people of enactment was necessary, and alarmingly, I did not permission informed connected precisely what these 31 radical had done to warrant their contiguous dismissal."

While the IWGB person accused them of national busting, Rockstar person stuck to their enactment that the unit were fto spell for "distributing and discussing confidential accusation successful a nationalist forum".

I've reached retired to Rockstar for comment.

Liberal Democrat MP Christine Jardine has besides antecedently raised the contented of the firings successful the House of Commons, revealing that she'd written to Rockstar asking for accusation astir the contented and requesting a gathering with a applicable minister.