(CNN Business) Pressure on Activision Blizzard is mounting as more than 2,000 current and former employees signed a petition slamming what they see as the video game company's "abhorrent and insulting" response to a California lawsuit. The petition, which was circulated Monday and seen by CNN Business, criticized the company's statements following a lawsuit filed last week by California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which alleged that multiple female employees were subjected to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and unequal pay. The company's director of corporate communications, Kelvin Liu, blasted the state's filing and investigation as "inaccurate" and "distorted" in a statement to CNN following the lawsuit. The company's statements in response to the lawsuit "are abhorrent and insulting to all that we believe our company should stand for," the petition said. "To put it clearly and unequivocally, our values as employees are not accurately reflected in the words and actions of our leadership.

Source: CNN July 27, 2021 00:11 UTC