Activision Blizzard stars in one of the court stories of the moment. The state of California denounced the company for alleged cases of workplace and sexual harassment, which has caused the departure of managers and employees high ranking. Meanwhile, the Americans have taken advantage of the dispute currently being held by two government institutions (DFEH and EEOC) over the case to try to paralyze the process. They have not succeeded.
The process runs its course
The Call of Duty company, Crash Bandicoot and Diablo have asked the authorities to stop the complaint in progress, but the request has been rejected. Activision Blizzard had reached an agreement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, for which they should allocate $ 18 million. However, the DFEH was against the agreement, since it considers that it will cause “irreparable damage” to its own complaint. The EEOC then reacted and revealed that two of the attorneys leading the case had previously served on the commission conducting the investigation, the same one that led to the settlement.
Now, Activision Blizzard may be able to use the conflict of interest as an argument to validate its position, although Judge Patrick Dillon of Los Angeles has frozen the company’s spirits by not contemplating any reason to stop the complaint. Still, there is a battle in the courtrooms and between offices. The refusal to put the process at a standstill does not seem to change the course of action or the strategies of each of the parties.
Activision Blizzard has published several communications throughout these weeks. In one of the last, they commit to allocate the 18 million of the agreement to the creation of new mechanisms to avoid the mala’s practice within the company, to the skepticism of employees and other parties involved.
Source | PC Gamer
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