An old PlayStation employee complains about gender-based discrimination

As the Axis site reports, a former PlayStation IT employee complained of on Monday against his former employer for sexist discrimination and abusive dismissal.

As shown by its LinkedIn profile, Emma Lee Major worked as a computer security analyst within the December 2015 PlayStation Network team until he left this year for a company from another sector. A clearly forced departure, because in its complaint filed with the Californian DFE agency (already at the origin of the investigation which launched the Activision Blizzard case last summer), Emma Lee Major considers that it is victim From an abusive dismissal for denouncing discrimination against women that she would have noticed during her visit to the company of San Mateo.

A complaint that does not necessarily go unnoticed in a context for the video game sector, including some of the most prominent representatives (Riot Games, Paradox Interactive, Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard) did (or are still) the object of denunciations as to the problems of toxic culture, harassment and discrimination. The situation has become particularly critical at the publisher of Call of Duty and Diablo, to the point that the resignation of CEO Bobby Kick has recently appeared as a possibility.

Emma Lee Major asks the court's authorization to expand its action to a class action on behalf of women who have worked for PlayStation in recent years and who would also like to denounce what they have experienced. SY practices discrimination against his employees, including those who are female and those who identify themselves as such, in terms of remuneration and promotion, and submits them to a culture of work dominated by men., denounces the former employee in his complaint.

Emma Lee Major also states that she has been ignored by a manager (you sugar) who only answered men, that any promotion was refused for six years and finally had been dismissed this year shortly after Have filed a complaint for sexual discrimination within the company. According to her, other women face similar difficulties to be recognized and climb the ladder in the same way as men in the PlayStation organization.

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Last fundamental point of the complaint, Emma Lee Major claims that Sony Interactive Entertainment has licensed it by pretending the closure of a department that it did not actually complaint for abusive dismissal. PlayStation representatives did not comment on the complaint, even though Jim Ryan was the first to inform his indignation about the Activision Blizzard last week.

For the financial, as well as non-economic damage, including an anxiety and an extreme and severe emotional distress that it says he has lived because of his experience at Sony Interactive Entertainment, Emma Lee Major considers to be entitled to and compensatory interests, whose tribunal will decide the amount in case of trial.