{"id":38011,"date":"2021-07-22T18:34:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T01:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38011"},"modified":"2021-07-22T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T01:34:48","slug":"activision-blizzard-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38011","title":{"rendered":"ACTIVISION BLIZZARD UNDER FIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California is suing a publishing company behind popular video games, alleging it of fostering a \u201cfrat boy\u201d workplace culture that subjected women at the company to sexual harassment and lower pay than their male peers.<\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bclbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmplfzbfg_frrdjjhshwdnsnyyqjgg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bclbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmplfzbfg_frrdjjhshwdnsnyyqjgg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627077020403000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFIDqmScIAWTQqfd0pQLk4ZM_LxKQ\">filed the lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday against Activision Blizzard, the company behind video game franchises such as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. The state alleges the game publisher, based in Sunnyvale, violated California&#8217;s Equal Pay Act and Fair Housing and Employment Act.<\/p>\n<p>Activision Blizzard rejected the allegation, accusing the California agency\u2019s complaint of including \u201cdistorted, and in many cases false, descriptions of Blizzard&#8217;s past,\u201d according to a statement from an Activision Blizzard spokesperson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California is suing a publishing company&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38012,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38011\/revisions\/38012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}