Alleging that Valve created a hostile work environment following her reassignment surgery, a former employee is suing the Steam platform creator for $3.1 million in damages.
The report comes from editors at Polygon, who got their hands on paperwork concerning the lawsuit. The litigant, identified only by her initials, worked on-site at Valve as a translator until sometime in 2012, when she informed Valve of her intention to go through with gender reassignment surgery, and that she would need to relocate to Los Angeles to be close to her doctors after surgery. Valve approved her request and allowed her to work from home while recovering.
Valve's consent came with a condition: since the now-former employee would no longer be on-site, she had to be reclassified internally as a contractor rather than a salaried worker.
Everything proceeded normally from there, until the translator accused Valve of—in her view—exploiting other translators who, per the lawsuit, were unpaid due to "false promises" by the company. She filed a written complaint, and was fired days later.
Here's where things get complicated. Valve claims she was "fired" only because she had recovered and would be relocating to Washington State, where the company is based. In other words, she'd be reclassified, as she was when making the jump from salary to contractual. But the litigant says she offered to move only for Valve to dismiss her permanently.
The paperwork goes into more detail: according to the former employee, she was fired for filing an official complaint, and because her supervisor was uncomfortable with her following her reassignment, allegedly referring to her as "it" on more than one occasion.
On April 12, she filed a lawsuit for $3.1 million in damages: $1 million for general damages, $1 million for special damages, $1 million for loss of earnings, and $150,000 for penalties and unpaid wages.
Valve issued a written response on May 20 and denied every allegation, asking for the complaint to be tossed.
Source: Polygon
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