Workplace Discrimination/Abuse

Businesses and their service providers are grappling with how to comply with New York City’s mandate for audits of artificial intelligence systems used in hiring.A New York City law that comes into effect in January will require companies…

Activision Blizzard Inc. ATVI 0.04% said it is moving to add two women to its board of directors, months after allegations of workplace discrimination and a toxic…

A California regulatory agency said it filed a lawsuit against Tesla Inc., TSLA 1.08% alleging racial discrimination and harassment at the electric-vehicle maker.The California Department…

SYDNEY—When one Rio Tinto RIO -2.38% PLC worker reported she had been sexually harassed by a colleague, a manager told her it had probably been meant as a joke. Another employee said they…

Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT -4.23% board of directors on Thursday said it would review the company’s sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and unveil a…

Riot Games, the company behind videogames such as League of Legends and Valorant, has agreed to pay $100 million to settle female workers’ allegations of gender discrimination.The deal closes out three years of litigation over allegations…

A leading contender to be full-time host of “Jeopardy!,” one of the most closely watched hiring searches in show business, responded Monday to backlash against his candidacy for the job, including allegations of…

Activision Blizzard probably wishes right now that real life had a reset button. The videogame publisher has been under fire since the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing sued the company two weeks ago,…

Activision Blizzard Inc. said an executive named in a gender-bias lawsuit filed against the company last month by California regulators is leaving the videogame company. J. Allen Brack is immediately stepping down from…

Activision Blizzard Inc. late Tuesday said it had hired a law firm to investigate complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace, hours before a planned employee walkout over the company’s reaction to allegations made in a…