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Ubisoft employees continue to push for accountability a year later
Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry publisher Ubisoft is the target of a new complaint filed in French court that accuses the company, and its long-time CEO and co-founder, Yves Guillemot, of “institutional harassment.” According to a survey released last fall, one in four Ubisoft employees has either witnessed or directly experienced misconduct.
The complaint was filed with the Bobigny criminal court yesterday on behalf of the Solidaires Informatique French worker union and two former Ubisoft employees.
“The complaint targets Ubisoft as a legal entity for institutional sexual harassment for setting up, maintaining and reinforcing a system where sexual harassment is tolerated because it is more profitable for the company to keep harassers in place than to protect its employees,” Solidaires Informatique Jeu Vidéo wrote in a statement today on Twitter, a translation of which was provided to Kotaku by one of its members.
The complaint also targets several current and former Ubisoft employees, including former chief creative director Serge Hascoët, and former editorial VP Tommy Francois, both of whom resigned from the company last summer following multiple reports they engaged in sexual misconduct at the company’s Paris headquarters.Meanwhile, it holds Cecile Cornet, former head of the company’s human resources department, who was removed from that position in a sudden purge of top leadership, of allowing “harassment to flourish within the company.” While Guillemot is also named in the complaint, it’s not for any activity he directly engaged in, but for being in charge of the company while these problems were open secrets.
Source: Kotaku
