Konami recently lost a lawsuit against a former employee after she was punished for taking maternity leave.
Yoko Sekiguchi took the six months of paid maternity leave that she was entitled to, only to discover upon her return to work that she had been demoted and her salary reduced by ¥200,000. Her employer stated that the demotion was due to the "burden" her pregnancy represented.
That was in 2009. Now, two years later, the courts have ruled in her favor. She only received ¥950,000 of the ¥33 million yen she'd demanded, but hey, a win's a win. Plus, it is nice to know Konami's consistent -- it's about as backward with worker's rights as it is with everything else it does.
Konami Loses Lawsuit Over Maternity Leave Discrimination [Gamasutra]
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4:30 PM on 12.29.2011 | 
If she's in the US, she can take 3 months, unpaid - FMLA Act.
Seriously, Ms. Sekiguchi must have been disappointed with only getting just shy of a million yen. I assume the other 32 million yen crawled and hid under a cardboard box.
Thats 200k yen per month, so it would have taken her 16.5 months to have made that extra 33 million on top of what she was already going to make. She was also demoted, which could have potentially cost her far more money in the more long term.
So yes, she most certainly would have been entitled to what she was asking for. It was a perfectly reasonable amount all things considered, and probably far less than a discrimination case here in the states would have fetched. It is almost laughable that she got so much less than that.
Your math is atrocious. You're right, lokhe, it would have been about 13 years. It makes more sense considering the demotion is more likely the main damage claim than the lost wages, and by my shitty math she was all but ignoring that part.
Remains, though, she was definitely entitled to far more than she got.
Your math is atrocious. You're right, lokhe, it would have been about 13 years. It makes more sense considering the demotion is more likely the main damage claim than the lost wages, and by my shitty math she was all but ignoring that part.
Remains, though, she was definitely entitled to far more than she got.
Then again this is a game company, and not to be sexist, but she might just be about the only.... woman... there.
1 month is all she can afford. She's gotta get back to work.
not really for one konami has Yumi Kikuchi(laughing octopus) always with Kojima during press events, and former employees like Ayami Kojima and Michuru Yamane.
so im pretty sure there are tons of women at konami :P
@Apsalus
ROLF as if America is even does a good job of equal rights.
What a great message to send to others! Oh wait, doesn't Japan have a problem with declining birth rates?
Less babies is videogames I say
I LOVED Pes, but I sadly had to sell my soul and start playing FIFA from 09 :(
"Haha I read this as 'Konami pushes woman for getting pregnant'"
Same here! :D
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Then she should've asked for a billion Yen & she might have got ¥100 million.
Morpheus got to be on CSI for a while. And that shit was CRAZY.
So you know what'll happen here?
Probably more crazy Konami games.