Activision Blizzard has yet to resolve the issue.
A US labor board found out that Activision Blizzard illegally threatened its employees and enforced certain social media policies that violate their rights. That's according to Bloomberg which cites a government spokesperson.
This follows the news that the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Activision Blizzard at the end of April 2022 claiming that the company threatened its employees who discussed their salaries and working conditions via internal Slack channels. In September 2021, the company was also accused of using illegal tactics and preventing the formation of unions.
Activision Blizzard will now have to settle the case, otherwise, it will receive a formal complaint from the NLRB's office in Los Angeles, a spokesperson of the NLRB said in a statement. Unless a settlement is reached, this will lead the company to a hearing in front of an NLRB Administrative Law Judge.
"These allegations are false. Employees may and do talk freely about these workplace issues without retaliation, and our social media policy expressly incorporates employees’ NLRA rights," an Activision Blizzard spokesperson said commenting on the issue (via Engadget).
"Our social media policy explicitly says that it ‘does not restrict employees from engaging in the communication of information protected by law, including for example, rights of employees in the United States protected by the National Labor Relations Act."
Alleged threats within Activision Blizzard studios were reported hours before the votes were counted in a Raven Software union election. Game Workers Alliance, the union that Raven's quality testers formed, was legally recognized by the National Labor Relations Board and has become the first union at a major US game studio.
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