Riot Games, the developer behind the wildly-received MOBA League of Legends, was issued a court order from the Department of Fair Employment and Housing of California (the same group that is taking action against Activision Blizzard) stating they must inform employees of their rights.
Previously, the DFEH demanded $400 million from Riot after they agreed to pay out $10 million. In this round, the DFEH insists that Riot inform its employees that they have the right to talk to government officials about unlawful workplace practices.
It has been reported, and confirmed by the DFEH themselves, that California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing alleges that Riot is keeping its employees from speaking to them and preventing employees with any sort of useful information from coming forward:
“Agreements that attempt to bar individuals from filing a complaint or assisting in a DFEH case run afoul of the anti-retaliation and anti-interference provisions of the Fair Employment and Housing Act,” said DFEH Director Kevin Kish. “Employers cannot impose a penalty on people who engage in protected activity under statutes enforced by DFEH. The very existence of such agreements has a chilling effect on the willingness of individuals to come forward with information that may be of importance to the DFEH as it seeks to advance the public interest in the elimination of unlawful employment discrimination and harassment.”
The court-ordered notice informs workers that they “may freely cooperate, participate, and obtain potential relief, if awarded,” in DFEH’s pending action, and that “Riot Games cannot retaliate or take any adverse action against [them] for speaking with DFEH, participating in DFEH pending action, or obtaining potential relief in such action.” Moreover, “Riot Games cannot require [any worker] to either notify the company or obtain permission before speaking with DFEH,” and that “[i]t is unlawful for [any] employer to retaliate against [workers] for speaking to the government or otherwise voluntarily participating or cooperating in government proceedings.”
This is likely in relation to Riot’s policy of forced arbitration, wherein cases such as sexual discrimination are taken out of court so things are settled quietly. Riot denies these claims, and in an email to the Verge, a spokesperson insisted that severance agreements don’t have any clause preventing employees from speaking to government officials, and it’s written in plain language:
“Nothing in this agreement prohibits you from reporting possible violations of federal or state law or regulation to any governmental agency or entity.”
Riot insists that this has been a standard part of the severance agreement.
how long until the game companies move to texas or china?
They already are moving to Texas hence it turning purple in 5 years.
yeah sadly most of the people fleeing democrat areas aren’t smart enough to realize that voting democrat caused the problems they fled from in the first place.
It is the same with the illegal immigrants insisting on bringing with them the culture that made their former country bad enough for them to leave it in the first place.
One one moves to another country they should be doing their best to live like the people of their new country.
Except for the Cubans fleeing Communism. But puppet Biden and the thing with its hand up his ass Harris have already told the Cubans not to cum. Wish they’d tell the Chinks not to cum instead – world has enough of those faggots as-is.
It’s either clinically retarded tier iq mutts and apes that conciously sign in their own democrat oppressors or very high tier mayomen and kikes that are within the spheres of the babyrapers or work for companies joined at the hip to the thieving government that are demonrats, they are long due extermination.
You literally admitted to being the low IQ ape that voted in your own oppressors you whine about, lmfao.
Wild dads should throw our useless soccer players off a transport plane like U muricunts have done，，，
no need to move, america is already China
Wild dads ain’t playing geriatric politics now，，，the happiest people（：
Forced arbitration DOES sound abusable as heck
usually is it, but if they force the arbitration means you don’t pay any legal fee.
Delta-ark（：
Ummm
DFEH can go F themselves.. California struck down equal employment protections so companies can discriminate in their hiring (think woke). Who cares what they think about Fair Employment.
And everyone in CA is homeless so what is this housing crap?
One thing I’m in doubt is whether the censorship of games in China is applied only to the sale of games to its population or is it in general, even being games for export sales to other countries.
Usually in general, some games have added DLC for the original versions or “secret stuff” in them to unlock the original uncensored artwork.
But sometimes they self-censor before it even comes out, and then you’re fucked on ever seeing the original.
In case of games, they self censor their games is due to vague description of regulation and they do not want to wait for long process of approval, that’s why they self censor just to play safe and save time.
I was reading Riot but was thinking Epic and their constant IP theft so they could profit on cosmetics… my bad. I’ve never played anything Riot lol.