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Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay about $54 million to settle discrimination claims brought by California's civil rights agency on behalf of women employed by the video game maker. The ...
Video game giant Activision Blizzard will pay $35 million to settle allegations that the company lacked procedures to collect and assess employee complaints of workplace misconduct.
Activision Blizzard and the CRD settled the lawsuit in December 2023, with Activision Blizzard agreeing to pay $54 million mostly associated with pay inequalities, but as stated by the CRD, the settlement is based on no findings to substantiate claims of widespread harassment within Activision Blizzard.
The Santa Monica-based "Call of Duty" game maker was sued by California's Civil Rights Department in 2021 for alleged sexual harassment and discrimination.
The California lawsuit was eventually settled in December 2023. The settlement agreement stated that there was no evidence of wrongdoing by the company's board, its executives, or Kotick. As part of that settlement, Activision Blizzard agreed to pay $54 million including set-asides to deal with pay and promotion inequality. [35]
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.Originally founded in 1991, the company is best known for producing the highly influential massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (2004), as well as the multi-million selling video game franchises Diablo, StarCraft and ...
Activision Blizzard will pay $54.9 million to settle a lawsuit by California’s Civil Rights Department alleging a pattern of pay and promotion practices that discriminated against women. The ...
Under Blizzard Entertainment, it invested in esports initiatives around several of its games, most notably Overwatch and Call of Duty. Activision Blizzard's titles have broken a number of release records. [9] [10] [11] As of March 2018, it was the largest game company in the Americas and Europe in terms of revenue and market capitalization. [12]