As many as 100 former Realtime Worlds workers are expected to take legal action in a bid to claim hundreds of thousands of pounds in unpaid wages and redundancy payments from the collapsed games firm.
They have registered their claim with the employment tribunal service after their jobs were axed, without formal notice, in mid-August.
Tahir Rashid, former lead artist on Realtime’s MyWorld project, said the staff had not been paid since July 25 and he and his former colleagues would be seeking unpaid wages for their last month in post.
They would also pursue pay in lieu of the 90-day notification period, he added.
It’s also understood a number of statutory redundancy payments, underwritten by the government, are still outstanding.
Mr Rashid (40) said, “I received my acceptance from the employment tribunal service about a week and a half ago and quite a few folk have done that now.”
He added, “According to a list I compiled about a month ago we were looking at over 100 and I hear that the majority of these people have gone through with the forms.
“We didn’t get the statutory consultation period and there was no indication that jobs were going to be cut but the company knew they were going to be in financial trouble six months ago.”
Realtime administrator Begbies Traynor has 28 days to respond to the workers’ claims.
A report published by the accountancy firm earlier this week showed that Realtime’s staff were owed a total of £890,000.
Project: MyWorld has been sold to Kimble Operations, where former Realtime chairman Ian Hetherington is a director, for less than £3 million, while Realtime’s other major project, APB, had the plug pulled after no buyer was found.