Riot Games Settles Gender Discrimination Lawsuit With $100 Million Payout

According to a study from The Washington Post, Riot Games is settling a long-running gender-based discrimination class-action lawsuit to the tune of $100 million. More specifically, $80 cardinal volition spell to members of the class-action suit, with the remaining $20 cardinal covering ineligible fees for the plaintiffs. 

According to The Washington Post's Shannon Liao, "All existent and erstwhile California employees and contractors who place arsenic women and worked astatine Riot Games betwixt November 2014 and contiguous time suffice for a payout." With the fig of eligible participants counting upwards of 2,300 women, those who person a longer tenure with the institution oregon were employed by Riot earlier are taxable to receiving a larger assertion of the payout.

This colony results from a lawsuit brought against Riot Games successful 2018 by erstwhile employees arguing the League of Legends developer's enactment civilization is deeply misogynistic. This includes discriminating against women successful the workplace and refusing to hire women the institution didn't see "core gamers." Originally, this suit was to beryllium settled successful 2019 for one-tenth of the amount, which we had reported on astatine that time. California's Department of Fair Housing and Employment stepped successful to contradict that magnitude which led to the payout agreed to today.

Other changes are being implemented to Riot's workplace culture, including amended throughlines for contractors oregon temp workers to go afloat employed by the company, arsenic good arsenic amended payscale transparency for imaginable caller hires to sanction a couple. 

For the afloat communicative connected what started this lawsuit, cheque retired Kotaku's exposé connected the substance from 2018.