According to reports, Riot Games will pay over 1,500 present and former female employees as well as creators by the gender bias case settlement that will take place in 2021. According to Axios’s reporting, Riot Games is preparing to pay 1,548 present and former female employees who filed allegations of gender biasas part of a settlement agreement that was previously revealed.
Riot Games agreed to settle the gaming dispute by paying $100 million in late 2021. It has been claimed that the settlement terms provide payments of $2,500 to $5,000 to be made to women who worked for the developer. Depending on the time the person spent working at Riot and their level within the company, the compensation might reach a maximum of $40,000. According to another story from Axios, seven women have decided against participating in the settlement.
Women Receives Compensation from Riot Games due to a gender bias lawsuit was revealed.
The class action lawsuit was initially planned to settle for $10 million, but California employment agencies intervened and lobbied for a bigger employee payout. The case was initially filed in 2018 and was originally set to settle for $10 million. The settlement was said in 2021 and accepted in July 2022. It was worth one hundred million dollars.
According to reports from late 2021 The New York Times obtained, the total number of women qualified to receive payment was estimated to be above 2,000. As part of the settlement, Riot has also committed to funding an internal diversity and inclusion program and having an independent party conduct a three-year audit of the company’s employment policies to determine whether or not they are gender equitable.
Riot Games began publishing an annual diversity and inclusion report in 2020. In 2023, the company said that women comprised 27.5% of its workforce and 26% of its global leadership. The payouts from the settlement will take place five years after Kotaku published an exposé on the company, stating that it was a hostile work environment for women. The filing of a lawsuit against the corporation followed this.
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