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Activision Blizzard says interviewing diverse candidates for every opening “unworkable” – GamesIndustry.biz
Publisher asks SEC to exempt it from putting “Rooney Rule” proposal before shareholders; EA says it will consider it
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Activision Blizzard is looking to avoid a shareholder proposal that it interview at least one diverse candidate when it hires for a position, according to a Vice report.
The proposal was made separately to both Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts by the AFL-CIO labor federation, which owns shares in both publishers.
The proposal was based on the NFL’s Rooney Rule, adopted in 2003 to require all of the football league’s teams to interview at least one diverse candidate for…
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