Claimants allege Rockstar HR lead knew who union members were prior to layoffs.
One of the witnesses in the ongoing Rockstar Games vs Garland & Others case has said he had "little interest" in evidence of unionisation efforts he was sent by an anonymous employee, prior to the developer laying off a substantial number of union Discord members.
This happened today as part of an on-going trial at Glasgow Tribunals Centre, as 31 former employees of the Grand Theft Auto 6 developer - represented by the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB) - claim they were targeted and unlawfully dismissed as part of union-busting efforts at Rockstar. Rockstar, however, claims the staff were fired due to gross misconduct and the leaking of confidential information.
Charlie Kinloch, HR manager and co-studio operations director at Rockstar Lincoln, was scrutinised by a cross examiner representing several laid off Rockstar developers today. Kinloch was alleged to have misled the employment court with a statement made during an interim relief hearing in January this year.
The claimants argued one aspect of this alleged misleading of the courts stemmed from differences in Kinloch's statements at different times during the legal dispute. Kinloch, initially, claimed he didn't know employees were members of the IWGB union. Then, in a more recent statement , Kinlock said he had no way of knowing "definitively" which employees were members of the IWGB. Kinloch disputes this was a deliberate attempt to mislead the court, and believed the additional word may have been included when he was prompted to provide context on the matter.
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