- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-12-18T18:16:00
Activision Blizzard agreed to pay nearly $55 million as part of a settlement with the California Civil Rights Department addressing highly publicized accusations of workplace discrimination against women at the video game company.
The settlement, announced Friday, remains subject to court approval. Of the total, nearly $46 million will be dedicated to compensating women who were employees or contract workers at the company in California between October 2015 and December 2020.
The California Civil Rights Department filed a lawsuit against Activision Blizzard in 2021, following a two-year investigation into damning allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination at the company.
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