Niantic, the developer of Pokemon GO, is accused of ``there is a wage gap between men and women''
Pokémon Go creator Niantic accused of 'systemic sexual bias' in lawsuit - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787809/niantic-lawsuit-systemic-sexual-bias-pay-disparity
On July 7, 2023 (Friday), a former Niantic employee said, ``We disrespect women and employees of color, and female employees and female employees of color cannot receive the same wages as other employees. I have filed a lawsuit against the company.
According to the complaint, Niantic was sued by an ``anonymous Asian woman'' who joined the company in February 2020 with a salary of $70,000 (about 10 million yen). After that, this female employee was promoted in the second half of 2020, and her salary was raised to about $ 84,000 (about 12 million yen). In 2021, he will have a higher position and responsibility than most of his male colleagues, but his salary was still lower than the surrounding male employees.
As of 2022, a male employee was reportedly receiving an annual salary of $127,000 (about 18.2 million yen), but the woman who filed the lawsuit was one position higher than this man. Nevertheless, he claims that his salary was $ 105,000 (about 15 million yen). After that, in the spring of 2023, this woman's salary was raised to $ 115,000 (about 16.4 million yen), but it still remains lower than male employees with lower positions.
As of 2023, the state of California in the United States has a ``Salary Transparency Law'' that requires companies with more than 15 employees to correctly share the salary range for each position in job information. In response to this, Niantic indicated a salary range for each position in the job posting, but the woman who filed the lawsuit had her salary less than the lower limit of that salary range by more than $ 10,000 (about 1.4 million yen). That's right.
A female employee who realized her salary was below Niantic's standards, talked with other female employees and started a group called 'Wolfpack' to prevent female employees at Niantic from being subjected to gender discrimination and pay disparity. Established.
She then raised the issue with Niantic's Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Principal People Partner, saying, 'They and Niantic's male leadership voiced her complaints and concerns about sexism and sexual bias in the workplace. The complaint states that it has made it clear that it is hostile to
One executive also explained that a female employee's discussion of the issue with her colleagues at work affected her evaluation and made her salary lower than normal. In addition, the female employee who filed the lawsuit explained, ``I was afraid that my involvement with Wolfpack would be detrimental to my work evaluation, so I immediately withdrew from Wolfpack.''
Wolfpack is conducting a survey of Niantic employees in 2023, and has announced that many female employees have responded that ``there is a gender wage gap and gender discrimination at Niantic''. When the survey results were shared with Niantic executives, Niantic's chief marketing officer, Mike Quigley, said, ``To Wolfpack, remove comments such as 'male-dominant workplace' and 'sexism' from the survey results. I asked him to do so,' the complaint states. It is also noted that Wolfpack has been notified by Niantic that ``it is not possible to conduct employee surveys without upper management approval''.
The female employee who filed the lawsuit was dismissed from the company due to Niantic's personnel reduction announced in June 2023.
Pokemon GO developer Niantic announces that it will dismiss about 230 employees and close the Los Angeles studio - GIGAZINE
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