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Riot Games, the developer of League of Legends<\/em>, is once again facing scrutiny. This time, it’s for trying to shut down several employees who are attempting to take legal action against the company.
<\/p>

A potential employee walkout could take place at Riot after the company failed to follow through on several promises, according to a report by Waypoint<\/a>.
<\/p>

Last summer, Kotaku reported<\/a> on the studio\u2019s inherent fraternity mindset and overall sexist culture, which led to five current and former employees filing lawsuits based around gender discrimination against Riot.
<\/p>

According to the documents obtained by Kotaku, the argument in place is that the two women faced with a legal shut down \u201cwaived their rights to sue the company when they were hired\u201d through arbitration clauses in their contracts. The lawyers working with the former Riot employees have said that they’re going to continue to fight against the company\u2019s \u201cforced arbitration.\u201d
<\/p>

Riot has taken steps to change the culture at its studio by hiring several people to work on the diversity and representation within the company. But if Riot is actively working to shut down two individuals trying to speak out against what’s happening, then all of those moves might be seen as them just doing the bare minimum to put out some of the fire.
<\/p>

\u201cTalk of a walkout has been brewing among a number of folks with varying levels of investment since Kotaku\u2019s first article hit,\u201d an anonymous source said to Waypoint. \u201cAnd leadership consistently promised transparency\/actions to be taken and then did not deliver on that promise.\u201d
<\/p>

In response to the potential walkout, Riot\u2019s chief diversity officer, Angela Roseboro, let employees know that open \u201csmall group sessions\u201d would be held to try and clear up some of the concerns and provide context. But this announcement received a lot of backlash from employees.
<\/p>

\u201cWhen Angela Roseboro offered to schedule focus sessions with people there was backlash because people were frustrated at yet another example of closed-door discussions instead of transparency,\u201d a second anonymous source told Waypoint. \u201cOverall, I think Rioters are sick of feeling like they have no visibility into what leadership is actually doing to improve.\u201d
<\/p>

Waypoint also pointed out that Google had a walkout of more than 3,000 employees after a piece was published by The New York Times<\/a> about the company\u2019s toxic tendencies. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"