Ubisoft Singapore is not getting away without an investigation for alleged workplace harassment and sexual assault.

This team is developing Skull & Bones (after several reboots). The studio has been under fire for sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, and other unfair practices, showing Ubisoft Singapore in a bad light and the whole Yves Guillemot-led company. (Even though Ubisoft had its fair share of negative press last year for essentially the same reason!)

The Straits Times reports that the Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices in Singapore (we will call them as TAFEP onwards) has launched an inquiry following a damning report from Kotaku surrounding the studio’s toxic work culture.

In this report, the studio was called “one of the worst Ubisoft studios in terms of culture” with a “French ceiling” that made it difficult for native workers to climb the ladder. Ubisoft responded that “40% of expert and senior expert roles are Singaporean or permanent residents,” even though the ex-employees claimed that French was a regularly used language on the studio floor.

TAFEP will investigate whether Ubisoft Singapore has breached the government’s Fair Consideration Framework. It covers workplace discrimination around things like age, gender, race, religion and language. If the studio is found guilty, they might lose the ability to apply for new work passes or renew existing ones for its foreign staff for a whole year or even two in the worst scenario. (In other words: foreigners might have to leave!) They also look into the sexual harassment claims. A litigation lawyer told The Straits Times that any criminal offences discovered will be escalated to a police investigation.

Darryl Long, Ubisoft Singapore’s managing director, said that the studio doesn’t tolerate harassment or discrimination. Ubisoft has hired a third party to help look into complaints and has “taken concrete action to formalise how misconduct is dealt with.” But this is an organisation with ties to the government. Ubisoft isn’t going to be let off the hook that easily.

Source: PCGamer