While a court has now approved the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s $18 million settlement with Activision Blizzard (despite California Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s [DFEH’s] opposition), various lawsuits and other loose ends remain—relative to both discrimination and union organizing. For instance, a plaintiff in another sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit alleges that managers and HR demonstrated a “repeated pattern of dismissal of complaints” and that the company demoted the plaintiff and subsequently offered her a new position with “a significant decrease in pay.” Meanwhile, a top California DFEH attorney was fired, and another resigned in protest stemming from allegations that Governor Newsom meddled in the Activision Blizzard case. It appears that we are nowhere near the end of this one. Stay tuned.
