Spiders Employees Get Higher Salaries, Better Remote Work Policies

Workers at Fall of Greed 2 Spiders developers got better salaries and remote work policies a week later threatening to go on strike.

In a statement sent to Game Developer by Spiders management, the company reiterated its previous claim that claims about poor working conditions made by the Video Game Workers Union (STJV) were “false and defamatory”… before announcing that the studio had negotiated new pay raises and other quality-of-life policies with employees.

The company has accepted workers' demands for a pay raise, announcing that it will increase the company's minimum wage by 11 percent starting in September 2024, retroactively to April 1, 2024. This amount was proposed by the studio's management and “aligned” with the union delegation's demands. The average employee will see a three percent pay raise as a result of this pay raise.

Workers will also now benefit from a new “draft company-wide telework agreement” that will enhance its remote work policies. Spiders management wrote that the company will “establish rules” for remote work that are “aligned with Spiders’ existing practices, without altering its core principles.” The company will also conduct an audit of working conditions and the company environment.

Related:Spiders developers strike after complaining about mismanagement and 'growing instability'

Spiders Continues to Clash with SJTV

Spiders management still appears to be fuming over how SJTV portrayed the company in its call for a strike last week. “Spiders management emphasizes that the working conditions prevailing within the studio do not match the description made by some media outlets in an attempt to destabilize the company,” it wrote. “Management relies on everyone's sense of responsibility to ensure that the quality of dialogue it values ​​and has maintained over the past few days [sic] is preserved in the future.”

He further argues that “the portrayal by some media” of the study is an “attempt to destabilize society.”

The statement's repeated reference to defamatory language is interesting given the history of Defamation lawsuits from French video game development studioslike when Detroit: Become Human Developer Quantic Dream has successfully filed a defamation lawsuit against Le Monde for its coverage of allegations of a toxic corporate culture at the studio.

French defamation and libel laws work very differently than American or British laws, and the company's stance in this case could be a setup for a lawsuit if SJTV makes further allegations.

In any case, the union pressure seems to have a positive effect on Spiders employees.

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