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December 28, 2021 04:07 pm

Riot Games will pay $100 million to settle discrimination lawsuit





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Riot Games has struck a $100 million settlement deal in a discrimination and harassment lawsuit brought by female employees. The League of Legends and Valorant publisher will pay at least $80 million to members of the settlement class and around $20 million in legal fees, and it will agree to workplace changes that include greater pay transparency and three years of third-party monitoring.


The settlement covers a 2018 class action lawsuit filed by current and former Riot employees in the wake of a Kotaku report detailing systemic sexism and unfair treatment. The suit described an environment where male employees made derogatory sexual comments about female colleagues and passed them over for promotion, creating a company-wide “unwritten...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/28/22856743/riot-games-settlement-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-dfeh

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