Riot Games will pay US$10mil to settle gender discrimination suit


The settlement filing lays out a number of commitments Riot has made to improve its company culture, including beefing up internal programmes for reporting sexual harassment and discrimination. — Bloomberg

Riot Games agreed to pay out at least US$10mil (RM41.74mil) to women who worked at the company in the last five years as part of a settlement in a class action lawsuit over alleged gender discrimination, according to court documents filed on Dec 2.

The suit began in November 2018 when two women who had worked at the Los Angeles game studio, which makes the popular League Of Legends game and is owned by the Chinese technology giant Tencent, sued over violations of the California Equal Pay act, alleging that they were routinely subject to sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

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