Two departments of the state government of California are unsatisfied with a $10 million preliminary settlement reached between Riot Games, the video game developer behind “League of Legends,” and two female former employees of the company who had alleged gender discrimination and sexual harassment at the company, and now the state wants Riot Games to ante up a drastically higher settlement: $400 million.
As The Los Angeles Times reports, the two women filed the lawsuit in November 2018, for violations of the California Equal Pay Act; the preliminary settlement was reached in December, which has to be approved by the Los Angeles Superior Court. But the same month, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) intervened, contending that the plaintiffs’ attorneys had not done adequate research before reaching a settlement. DLSE argued that the original notice for equal pay violations was misfiled.
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