Activision to pay $50m to settle lawsuit

Sues 'Call of Duty' maker over allegations that it routinely underpaid and failed to promote female employees

LOS ANGELES:

Activision Blizzard will pay roughly $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.

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The CRD will withdraw the allegations of sexual harassment, according to the settlement agreement.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 17^th, 2023.

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