Former PlayStation employee files lawsuit alleging gender discrimination and wrongful termination
A former PlayStation worker has filed a lawsuit against Sony Interactive Entertainment in California, claiming it “cultivates a work environment that discriminates against female employees”, and suing it for “gender discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination”.
In the lawsuit, filed on 22nd November by former PlayStation IT security analyst Emma Majo (thanks Axios), it’s claimed Sony “wilfully violated” labour laws by “intentionally, knowingly, and/or deliberately paying women less than men for substantially equal or similar work”.
According to Majo, who joined the company in 2015, female staff at PlayStation “were not compensated equally to male employees” who had substantially similar jobs, were “held back to lower pay levels”, and were “denied promotions”. Moreover, the lawsuit alleges “discriminatory employment practices, policies, and procedures are centrally established and implemented at the highest levels of Sony”.
The lawsuit claims Sony has managers who will “not be alone in a room with a female with the door closed”, and that one manager, Yu Sugita, “would only speak to the male colleague” if female employees were also present in the room, and would ignore requests send directly by female staff while responding to “virtually identical” requests sent by male employees.
