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California is investigating Riot for gender discrimination.

A Swarm of Koala·6/13/2019, 12:40:07 AM·2 votes·1,573 views

Source: https://kotaku.com/the-state-of-california-is-investigating-riot-games-for-1835463823

For those of you who refuse to give Kotaku traffic (this journalist is one of the good ones though), here's most of the article:

The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing said today that it is filing an investigation enforcement suit against League of Legends publisher Riot Games, as part of an investigation into gender discrimination at the company.

The DFEH is asking the courts to compel Riot to provide employees’ pay information for “an ongoing investigation into alleged gender discrimination,” according to a press release issued on Wednesday afternoon by the department. It said that it is looking into “alleged unequal pay, sexual harassment, sexual assault, retaliation, and gender discrimination in selection and promotion.”

While the investigation began in October 2018, the DFEH said that Riot has so far “refused to provide the Department with adequate information for DFEH to analyze whether women are paid less than men at the company,” which is why it is now filing the suit. In the suit, the DFEH says that Riot has “impeded” the investigation by withholding “basic employment data that... employment laws require employers to maintain.” The DFEH said it has met with Riot numerous times but has been unable to reach a solution without involving the courts.

Interested in seeing what comes up from this.

36 Comments

Jamaree6/13/2019, 12:48:54 AM7 votes

Is it Jason Schrier or however you spell his name because if not, like the other 99% of kotakus writers are alt leftist jokes who don’t play video games.

The Ecdysiast6/13/2019, 12:52:34 AM3 votes

My guess is what it'll amount to is long-time employees getting paid more and happening to be male, while newer employees who come directly from hyper-liberal colleges are expecting more than they've worked for.

Linna Excel6/13/2019, 12:53:23 AM3 votes

Kotaku has exactly one decent journalist and that's Jason Schrier. Also, it's pretty easy to click on the link if you've got a decent ad-blocker. They have it out for Riot for some reason beyond me and it's hard for me to see anything posted by them on the subject as anything other than as witchhunt propaganda.

Rockman6/13/2019, 1:04:24 AM3 votes

Interesting they won’t comply with state investigation agencies. I’m all for using labor laws if Riots got gender discrimination in pay.

Soul Dealer6/13/2019, 1:58:00 AM3 votes

This sounds like California trying to fuck people over as usual. Damn shw state can’t fucking leave people alone.****

Tahminatrix 6/13/2019, 12:48:35 AM2 votes

Kaisa already getting her 4th skin goes to show that they are in fact not discriminating against females.

[sg-kiko]

edit: unfortunately I have to make it more clear that --->** I am joking** <---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^