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Activision Blizzard continues to stay in the news, but not for the reasons they want to. Merely weeks afterwards their ground-breaking acquisition by Microsoft and with an executive milkshake-upward looming as a issue of it, they continue to fight a lawsuit from the land of California Department of Off-white Employment and Housing for creating an surroundings rife with "unlawful harassment, bigotry, and retaliation." Now, information technology looks like that lawsuit is going to be broader in scope than the visitor wanted.

According to games journalist Stephen Totilo on Twitter, the visitor's recent motion to accept the lawsuit narrowed to just permanent employees has been thrown out. The approximate ruled that the court could indeed consider temporary workers' treatment at the easily of Activision Blizzard when determining if they broke any laws.

This is particularly relevant to the visitor as a strike from employees at Raven Software, which is owned past Activision Blizzard, continues specifically due to their treatment of temporary employees. Had the motion held up, the lawsuit could non look at whether those contractors were unfairly dismissed. It also has potential implications across the gaming industry, which relies heavily on contractors and freelance employees to fulfill roles like Quality Assurance.

The land's lawsuit confronting Activision Blizzard might accept been originally filed dorsum in July 2022, but information technology looks like it volition be a while earlier information technology eventually reaches the trial stage. The jury trial isn't scheduled to begin until February 2023 at the primeval.