Activision Blizzard has settled its 2021 lawsuit with the state of California, and can pay $54 million to the state together with a further $47 million to feminine workers who labored on the firm from 2015 to 2020.
The 2021 lawsuit, filed by the state company then often known as the California Division of Honest Employment and Housing and now often known as the California Civil Rights Division, accused Activision Blizzard of fostering a “frat boy” office tradition rife with sexual harassment. Now, through The New York Instances, Activision Blizzard and the California Civil Rights Division say within the settlement settlement that investigations into the corporate’s tradition didn’t flip up proof of “systemic or widespread sexual harassment.”
An investigation into Activision’s board, together with the corporate’s CEO, Bobby Kotick, discovered no proof of wrongdoing, in accordance with the settlement settlement. A report by The Wall Avenue Journal in 2021 alleged Kotick hid data of misconduct on the firm. The report alleged he had made a loss of life menace to a feminine assistant in 2006 and had personally intervened in a separate inside sexual harassment investigation on the firm. Activision Blizzard had beforehand argued in opposition to the lawsuit, attributing it to “irresponsible habits from unaccountable state bureaucrats.”
