Google pays $118 million to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
Google has agreed to pay $118 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the group of discriminating against women in pay and rank in California, two law firms said.
ASSOCIATED PRESS - Paul Sakuma
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Google is putting its hand in the wallet to settle a collective lawsuit accusing the group of having discriminated against women in terms of salaries and levels in California.
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A $ 118 million agreement to cover approximately 15,500 employees who have worked in California since September 2013, details the press release released Friday by the two law firms representing them.
The company also accepted an analysis of its recruitment and compensation practices by third parties.
"
After nearly five years of litigation, both parties have agreed that resolving the matter, without any admission of liability or conclusion, is in everyone's best interests, and we are very pleased to have reached this agreement.
" , said a Google spokesperson on Sunday in a message to
AFP
.
The complaint was filed in 2017 in a San Francisco court by former Google employees who claimed that the search engine paid women less than men in equivalent positions and that they were assigned to lower levels than men. men with equivalent experiences and qualifications, because the company was based on their previous salaries.
The American giant denies all the allegations
According to the text of the agreement, made public by the attorneys, Google "
denies all allegations in the complaint and maintains that the group has fully complied with all applicable laws, rules and regulations at all times
."
The deal still needs to be approved by a judge: "
We are absolutely committed to paying, hiring and leveling all employees fairly and equitably
," the company spokesperson said in his post.
“
If we find any differences in the pay offered, including between men and women, we are making upward adjustments to remove them before the new pay comes into effect, and we will continue to do so
,” said the Google spokesperson.
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Google, already accused of discrimination against its employees in 2021
The search engine had already agreed in 2021 to pay $ 3.8 million to the US Department of Labor following accusations of discrimination against women and people from the Asian community.
Most of this money was to be used to compensate 2,565 women employed by Google in engineering positions, as well as nearly 3,000 people, female candidates or candidates of Asian origin, who had not been chosen for such positions. .
Google then said that the discrimination had been detected during a routine internal analysis and that the company had agreed to pay this sum to correct the situation, while denying having broken the law.
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