Riot Games to pay $100m in discrimination case

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Riot Games, the studio best known for League of Legends, has agreed to pay $100m to settle a gender discrimination case.

The California Department of Fair Employment & Housing wrote that the settlement will result in violations against 1,065 women employees and 1,300 women contract workers.

The firm was accused of engaging in sex discrimination and harassment.

Riot Games said that it must take responsibility for the past.

The company will pay about $90m to members of the class action suit and another $20m to cover legal costs.

The Los Angeles Times investigated the case.

Riot was accused of fostering a "bro culture" and faced a number of other allegations.

The email chain that rated the company's "hottest women employees" and the images of male genitalia that were shown to workers were included.

Riot agreed to workplace reforms, independent expert analysis of its pay, hiring, and promotion practices, and to be monitored for instances of sexual harassment at its California offices for three years as part of the settlement.

The company must create 40 full-time positions in engineering, quality assurance or art-design for its former contract workers and set aside $18m to fund diversity, equity and inclusion programmes.

The settlement would lead to lasting change at Riot Games and send a message that all industries in California must provide equal pay and workplace free from discrimination and harassment, according to Kevin Kish.

The deal to settle the case for $10 million was blocked by the DFEH and another agency because they argued that the victims were not entitled to the full amount.

The company told the Washington Post that it had to face the fact that it hadn't always lived up to its values.

We hope that the settlement acknowledges those who had negative experiences at Riot.

Riot's executive team said in a letter to staff that the settlement was the right thing to do, for both the company and those who had bad experiences at Riot.

The company has made improvements to its workplace since last year, including hiring its first chief people officer and its first chief diversity officer.

There are other prominent games firms that face questions about workplace culture.

The company behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft is being taken to court.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the US reached a settlement with the company over claims of sexual discrimination and harassment.

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