Activision to pay USD 50 million to settle workplace harassment lawsuit
Activision Blizzard will pay roughly USD 50 million to settle a 2021 lawsuit by a California regulator that alleged the videogame maker discriminated against women employees, including denying them promotion opportunities and underpaying them. California's Civil Rights Department (CRD) had sued the "Call of Duty" maker after two years of investigation over allegations that it routinely underpaid and failed to promote female employees and condoned sexual harassment. Activision will take additional steps to ensure fair pay and promotion practices and provide monetary relief to women who were employees or contract workers in California between October 12, 2015, and December 31, 2020, as part of the agreement, which is subject to court approval, the CRD said in a statement on Friday. The CRD ...