Activision Blizzard can pay roughly USD 50 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit by a California regulator that alleged the videogame maker discriminated towards girls workers, together with denying them promotion alternatives and underpaying them.
California’s Civil Rights Division (CRD) had sued the “Name of Responsibility” maker after two years of investigation over allegations that it routinely underpaid and failed to advertise feminine workers and condoned sexual harassment.
Activision will take further steps to guarantee truthful pay and promotion practices and supply financial aid to girls who had been workers or contract employees in California between October 12, 2015, and December 31, 2020, as a part of the settlement, which is topic to court docket approval, the CRD mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
The CRD will solely withdraw the allegations and dismiss its systemic harassment-related claims, in keeping with the settlement settlement that was seen by Reuters.
“Within the settlement settlement, the CRD expressly acknowledged that ‘no court docket or unbiased investigation has substantiated any allegations that there was systemic or widespread sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard’,” the videogame maker mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
The corporate additionally mentioned that no investigation substantiated that its board or chief government acted improperly in dealing with cases of office misconduct.
Activision, which was purchased in October by Microsoft for almost USD 69 billion, agreed in 2021 to pay as much as USD 18 million to settle related claims made by the Equal Employment Alternative Fee.
California’s Civil Rights Division (CRD) had sued the “Name of Responsibility” maker after two years of investigation over allegations that it routinely underpaid and failed to advertise feminine workers and condoned sexual harassment.
Activision will take further steps to guarantee truthful pay and promotion practices and supply financial aid to girls who had been workers or contract employees in California between October 12, 2015, and December 31, 2020, as a part of the settlement, which is topic to court docket approval, the CRD mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
The CRD will solely withdraw the allegations and dismiss its systemic harassment-related claims, in keeping with the settlement settlement that was seen by Reuters.
“Within the settlement settlement, the CRD expressly acknowledged that ‘no court docket or unbiased investigation has substantiated any allegations that there was systemic or widespread sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard’,” the videogame maker mentioned in an announcement on Friday.
The corporate additionally mentioned that no investigation substantiated that its board or chief government acted improperly in dealing with cases of office misconduct.
Activision, which was purchased in October by Microsoft for almost USD 69 billion, agreed in 2021 to pay as much as USD 18 million to settle related claims made by the Equal Employment Alternative Fee.
