Riot Games agrees to pay $100 million settlement in gender discrimination lawsuit
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Tencent Holdings' Riot Games on Monday said it has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a 2018 gender-based discrimination class-action lawsuit with California state agencies and current and former women employees.
The company said it will pay $80 million to the members of the class-action suit, comprising all current and former full-time women employees and temporary agency contractors in California who worked from November 2014 to present.
An additional $20 million will be paid towards attorneys' fees and miscellaneous expenses, Riot Games said in a statement. Other stipulations of the agreement include Riot funding a diversity and inclusion program, job assignments to be conducted by a third party and an audit of workplace investigations.
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