Activision Blizzard has been hit with a PAGA lawsuit in California Superior Court claiming wage and hour violations.

Los Angeles, CAA former Activision Blizzard employee filed a PAGA lawsuit claiming the video game giant didn’t allow employees to leave work during meal and rest breaks, and they were often not allowed to take breaks, as required by California labor law. The lawsuit alleges the company violated other employment laws.

Jerome Bonoan initially filed both class action and PAGA claims bundled together in late 2024 in state court, and the defendants-- Activision Blizzard and its subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment--moved it to federal court. (Under certain conditions, defendants have the right to remove cases from state court to federal court. The case was originally filed in California Superior Court in Los Angeles County in October 2024, and then Blizzard removed it to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where it was refiled on September 15, 2025.)

Bonoan claims the company shortchanged its workers and violated the California labor code from 2010 to early 2025 by the following:

• Not paying them proper wages for being forced to work through legally mandated rest and meal periods,
• Not allowing them to take breaks or meal breaks,
• Controlling what they did during breaks,
• Not providing second off-duty meal period for some workdays in which these employees were required by defendant to work ten hours of work,
• Failed to provide accurate work...

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