It's the latest escalation in a dispute that began with Samsung workers demanding a direct share of the money generated by the AI memory boom.Read Entire Article
… That bonus would have been shared with the game’s development team. The executives sued, and in March, a judge reinstated Gill as Unknown Worlds’ CEO and extended the eligibility period for the $250 million bonus to September 15th, as reported by Kotaku. …
… The union is demanding that Samsung allocate 15% of operating profit toward employee bonuses and remove limits tied to performance-based compensation. …
… The union is disputing issues involving bonus pay, which it sees as insufficient compared to Samsung's corporate memory rival SK Hynix, who's passing on its AI-fueled profits to employees. …
… In essence, the ongoing dispute centers around the union’s demand that Samsung uncap performance payouts and set them at 15% of operating profit. …
… Under Wednesday’s deal, Samsung semiconductor workers will get 10.5 per cent of operating profits, on top of an existing company-wide bonus scheme. The new bonus pool will be split between division-wide payouts and rewards tied to individual business units. …
… After a judge’s ruling in March that reinstated the studio’s CEO and extended the eligibility window for a potentially significant bonus for Unknown Worlds’ developers, the game got its new early access launch date. …
… Exact terms of the agreement have not been fully disclosed, but the dispute centered on performance bonuses . The union had pushed for Samsung to allocate 15% of annual operating profit to employee bonuses and scrap a 50% annual salary cap on performance payouts. …
… Valve veteran Chet Faliszek has called out Krafton CEO Changhan Kim's reliance on ChatGPT for legal strategy during the Subnautica 2 contract dispute, and now that the title has done gangbusters in terms of players, many, including Faliszek, are wondering if Krafton will have to pay out that $250 m… …
… The news follows the resolution of Epic's dispute with Google over app store fees , which have been reduced to 20%. …