According to Kotaku, the lawsuit claims that the two employees, both female, have been "denied equal pay and found their careers stifled because they are women." The suit continues on to say that the employees have "seen t heir working conditions negatively impacted because of the ongoing sexual harassment, misconduct, and bias which predominate the sexually-hostile working environment of Riot Games." The lawsuit also claims that Riot has violated California's Equal Pay Act and law against gender-based discrimination at the workplace.
The plaintiffs are seeking compensation for unpaid wages, compensation for damages, and compensation for other penalties. The plaintiffs hope that their lawsuit also changes the allegation that Riot promotes men more often than women who are equally qualified.
The lawsuit complaint also says it wants to prevent Riot from “creating, encouraging, and maintaining a work environment that exposes its female employees to discrimination, harassment, and retaliation on the basis of their gender or sex.”
Kotaku goes on to note that after their previous investigation into sexism and the overall working conditions at Riot, the studio had issued an apology and promised a number of changes. Though some employees were terminated as a result, many others still retained their position within Riot.
You can read quite a bit more about this current lawsuit over at Kotaku. Their story goes into greater depth of some specific situations the plaintiffs are claiming to have happened that they have witnessed or have experienced first-hand.
The lawsuit includes details previously unknown to Kotaku as well, like Negron’s claim that in just one month, she counted that her male colleagues at Riot used the word “dick” over 500 times. The lawsuit also says Negron’s third supervisor had told her that “diversity should not be a focal point of the design of Riot Games’ products because gaming culture is the last remaining safe haven for white teen boys.”
Alternatively, you can also read through the lawsuit itself by viewing the embedded Scribd below.
Complaint by on Scribd
