Sony Interactive Entertainment Seeks Dismissal of Gender Discrimination Suit

The U.S. District Court in San Francisco should grant the motion from Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) to dismiss a gender discrimination complaint from a former employee because she fails “to allege sufficient facts to support her asserted claims,” SIE lawyers argued Tuesday in docket 3:21-cv-09054. Emma Majo, who worked for SIE in San Mateo, California, for six years through 2021, filed her complaint in November seeking class-action status, alleging SIE employees who are female or identify as female “were not compensated equally to male employees who had substantially similar job classifications.” She also alleged SIE’s “discriminatory policies, practices, and procedures include a system where women are denied opportunities for advancement,” and that she was terminated abruptly after confronting management with her grievances. SIE countered that while Majo alleges “classwide claims of disparate treatment and disparate impact discrimination,” she fails to identify a “single policy, practice or procedure at SIE that allegedly formed the basis of any widespread intentional discrimination or had a discriminatory impact on women.” Majo’s widespread claims of harassment “are based solely on unactionable allegations of run-of-the-mill personnel activity,” said SIE. She claims “SIE failed to prevent discrimination and harassment, but provides no facts suggesting SIE knew or should have known about the alleged conduct about which she complains.”