Activision Blizzard and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC in the United States) have reached an agreement whereby the firm led by Bobby Kotick will pay $18 million for help victims of sexual harassment and workplace abuse of the company.
After the numerous accusations made against the corporation, which is facing different lawsuits and a lawsuit by the California Department of Fair Employment (DFEH), the giant American publisher avoids greater sanctions, including legal proceedings, with a movement that can have negative consequences for the complaint of the DFEH, which portrayed with evidence the chauvinist and humiliating culture of some Activision Blizzard employees.
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The reason is very simple: all employees who have been working at Activision Blizzar since September 1, 2016 and consider themselves victims of these situations of workplace abuse or harassment may request this financial compensation, thus limiting the purpose of the Department of Housing and Employment Exactly, it went much further.
The workers’ union considers this compensation insufficient
It should be remembered that the assets of the CEO of the company, Bobby Kotick, also accused of alleged mistreatment, is more than 371 million dollars only as shares; To which must be added another 292 million dollars in the form of a settlement if he is fired from the company; according to documentation filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last year.
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“Our goal is to make Activision Blizzard a model for the industry, and we will continue to focus on eliminating harassment and discrimination from our workplace,” Activision Blizzard CEO and CEO Bobby Kotick said in a statement on Tuesday. press release on the occasion of the information. “The court’s approval of this settlement is an important step in ensuring that our employees have recourse mechanisms if they experience any form of harassment or retaliation,” he stresses.
On the other side we find the largest communications union in the United States, the Communications Workers of Americawhich last October described as “unfortunately insufficient” the initial $18 million proposal from last October, which could “provide maximum compensation for only 60 workers”.
Until last year 2021, the annual salary of the CEO of the company was 155 million dollars.
Source | The Washington Post; via VGC
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