Riot Games must pay compensation to more than 1,500 women to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit in 2021.
According to Axios, Riot Games is reportedly going to pay compensation to 1,548 female employees currently employed as well as retired, in a settlement aimed at resolving the company’s sexism claims
Riot Games has agreed to pay $100 million to settle the lawsuit by the end of 2021. The terms of the settlement are said to require payments of between $2,500 and $5,000 to women once recruited by the company. use. Payments can be up to $40,000 depending on how long the employee has worked at Riot and their status.
The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2018 and was initially settled for $10 million, then employment agencies in California (USA) stepped in and demanded higher compensation for the victims. The $100 million settlement was announced in 2021 and approved in July 2022.
According to an initial report by The New York Times in 2021, the number of employees claimed to be more than 2,000 people. Axios also reported that seven female employees opted out of the settlement