Emma Majo, former employee of the company claims to have been fired due to a gender discrimination complaint, which she filed within the company.

Discrimination complaints in the video game industry have been making the headlines for too long. Ubisoft have been denounced on several occasions for institutional harassment, while at Riot Games, the company has not stopped trying to quell claims of gender discrimination. This time it is PlayStation, which is facing a discrimination lawsuit filed just this Monday in California by Emma Majo, a former security analyst at the company. In the lawsuit, shared by the Axios portal, the former employee refers to a violation of the U.S. Equal Pay Act, where PlayStation employees would be discriminated against in compensation and promotion, subjecting them to a work culture where men predominate.

Among Majo’s accusations, she has claimed to have been ignored by one of the managers, who only responded to men. The former employee also claims that she was fired due to filing a gender discrimination complaint within the company. Majo even said that women were more likely to face challenges of being promoted than men. The former PlayStation analyst also pointed out that Sony justified her dismissal based on the closure of an internal departmen. In which Mayo was not working. This lawsuit has come at a turbulent time for the industry due to the Activision Blizzard cases, before which the head of Sony Interactive Entertainment, Jim Ryan, showed his concern.

Source: 3DJuegos