Oracle will cough up $35m to resolve a class-action dispute with 1,725 of its workers in the US over unpaid overtime and meal allowances. The superior court in Alameda County, California last week gave preliminary backing to the settlement, according to Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen and Dardarian – the legal eagles …

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Monday 14th November 2011 12:51 GMT Captain Underpants

Hmm. Based on the substantial (negative) change in quality of service we've received for all our Sun kit (all still under pricey enough service contracts) since Oracle took them over, I'm not surprised. (There again, Oracle did *start* their takeover of Sun support services in a manner that indicated their overall strategy, by completely bodging the database import for their existing customers and service contracts, to the extent that we're still getting letters and emails asking us whether we want to renew our support contract for some kit that we don't own and which Oracle believe to be in a different county....)

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1. Monday 14th November 2011 15:16 GMT Matt Bryant
  
  RE: Captain Underpants
  
  ".....we're still getting letters and emails asking us whether we want to renew our support contract for some kit that we don't own...." Yes, but how many other companies have such bills going to their purchasing departments, which don't have a clue as to which servers are where or whether they're alive or decom'd, and simply pay up? How else do you think Hurd gets to his "hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Solaris installs"?
  
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Monday 14th November 2011 13:19 GMT Anonymous Coward

If companies want people to work for free they should lobby for the reintroduction of slavery.

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1. Monday 14th November 2011 16:41 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  It's not slavery.
  
  At least slaves got meal breaks!
  
  (Joking aside, I think it would be more accurate to say that corporations want to restore us to the status of serfs, not slaves.)
  
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Monday 14th November 2011 14:53 GMT Silverburn

Hmmm

At least those poor unpaid grunts can sleep easy knowing that Ellison doesn't get paid for overtime either.

Mind you, his annual package is worth almost double the entire unpaid overtime bill, so I'm sure he's not so bothered about a late night every now and then. <rolls eyes>

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Monday 14th November 2011 14:55 GMT Mondo the Magnificent

I know why!

It was a database error that prevented the overtime payments!

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Monday 14th November 2011 19:26 GMT Anonymous Coward

"Oracle admits no liability."

So just when DOES any blood-sucking company admit liability?

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Monday 14th November 2011 22:52 GMT Anonymous Coward

Bad Management. Lousy employers

But I guess every one knew that

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