Discrimination

A California regulator has settled its blockbuster lawsuit that alleged a culture of sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard. Now under the ownership of Microsoft, the gaming company will pay about $54 million as part of the settlement, according to a press release from California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD). The CRD (formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing or DFEH) filed this lawsuit in July 2021, alleging that Activision Blizzard had a “frat boy” culture where women were subject to sexual…

Updated Dec. 15, 2023 5:41 pm ETActivision Blizzard has agreed to pay about $50 million to settle a high-profile lawsuit by a California regulator that helped spur Microsoft’s October takeover of the videogame company, according to people familiar with the matter.California’s Civil Rights Department sued Activision in mid-2021, alleging its leadership ignored numerous employee complaints of sexual harassment, discrimination and pay disparity. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine being the most qualified person for a job and not getting a call-back or not being selected for an interview. As recruitment decisions shift from being based on assessing applicants' traditional CVs to relying on information gleaned from technology, there is a risk qualified candidates will be filtered out…

People pass by a Wells Fargo bank on May 17, 2023 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesWells Fargo was snared in an industrywide probe into mortgage bankers' use of loan discounts last year, CNBC has learned.The discounts, known as pricing exceptions, are used by mortgage personnel to help secure deals in competitive markets. At Wells Fargo, for instance, bankers could request pricing exceptions that typically lowered a customer's APR by between 25 to 75 basis points.The practice, used for decades across the home…

Hours into a standoff with a barricaded suspect in northeast Los Angeles earlier this year, a Black officer said he was cornered by a white lieutenant who berated him for sporting a beard that was longer than permitted by LAPD regulations.“This department is accepting anything now,” the lieutenant said, according to a complaint filed in the case. The officer who reported the incident declined to comment and asked that his name be withheld, citing fear of retaliation within the department.The officer explained in his…

December 7, 20236 min readFar-right extremists shifted their online hate from Muslims to Jews in 2017, and offline hate followed the same trends By Will Hobbs & Nazita Lajevardi Both anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate is on the rise in the U.S. Just two weeks after the start of the conflict in Israel and Palestine, hate incidents grew by 400 percent against Jews, and increased by 216 percent over a four-week period against Muslims, compared to the previous year.Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate is surging most…

Darryl George, a Texas high school student who sued his school for discriminating against him for having locs, was placed in an in-school suspension Tuesday after returning to school. The reason this time? The length of his hair, George’s spokesperson Dr. Candice Matthews confirmed. The new disciplinary measure from Barbers Hill High School arrived immediately after he served a 48-day stay in a disciplinary alternative education program (DAEP) for supposed “multiple infractions of campus and classroom rules,”…

Frontier Airlines will settle a federal lawsuit filed by five pilots who accused the Denver-based airline of discriminating against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Through the settlement, Frontier will allow pilots to pump breastmilk in the cockpit during noncritical phases of a flight and will update or comply with existing policies that impact pregnant and lactating employees. It is one of the first airlines to allow pilots to pump during flights, according to a Monday news release from the American Civil…

Credit: Ron Lach from Pexels Alex Gutierrez worked for MUR Shipping and its predecessors for nearly 30 years. But in 2018 he was told, in line with company policy, it was time to set a retirement date. Gutierrez was moved to a fixed-term contract, asked to train his replacement and ultimately resigned from his job. He then…

Meagan Good’s hair can change with each project. In Prime Video’s Harlem, red dreads trace her back, in Shazam! Fury of the Gods she wears a curled bob, and in Think Like A Man, she sports a middle part with a swept bang. Despite her hair’s versatility, not every stylist gets it right. As a teenager, one stylist even let a piping hot pressing comb sear her scalp.   “I ended up with six tooth marks in the middle of my forehead,” Good tells Rolling Stone.  By her 20s and 30s, she’d grown accustomed to bringing a…