Riot Games settle historic gender discrimination lawsuit for $100 million
Riot Games has settled a historic gender-based discrimination lawsuit three years after a range of sexual harassment allegations were brought to light, with the gaming publisher agreeing to payout $100 million to female employees.League of Legends and Valorant publisher Riot Games has finally settled a lawsuit initially filed in November 2018 by former employees in light of workplace harassment and sexual discrimination.After years of ongoing legal battles, $100m is now set to be paid out to 1,065 female employees and 1,300 contract workers, the Department of Fair Employment & Housing (DFEH)announcedon December 27.This fee is 10x greater than theamount previously settledon in 2019. After the DFEH blocked the initial agreement, claiming victims should be paid as much as $400m instead, the new sum of $100m was confirmed two years later.
“We want to acknowledge that the timing of this announcement isn’t ideal,” an email from Riot executives read, according toreports from The Washington Post.“The final details of the agreement came together quickly. We wanted you to hear about it from us directly rather than read about it in the news while on break.”
This announcement comes in the same calendar year asRiot’s own CEO was under investigationfollowing a separate Los Angeles lawsuit in light of further gender-discrimination claims.
