Google has agreed to pay $118 million to settle a class-action gender discrimination case involving approximately 15,500 women in 236 job categories.Â
In 2017, three former employees of google had taken legal action against the company asserting that the company paid less to the women than men at equivalent positions doing the same job and also assigning women for lower positions compared to the men with the same experience and qualifications. In the United States.
The $118 million include female employees who are 15,500 in number, and have worked for the company in California since the month of September ,2013, said the law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Altshuler Berzon LLP in a statement released by them. With addition to this as a part of the settlement the company has also agreed for a third party to analyse their employing and compensation practices.
The women who filed the case are Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease, Kelli Wisuri and Heidi Lamar respectively, they had been working for google since September 14, 2013 in covered positions. This class action gender discrimination lawsuit was filed four years later in the year 2017 in the San Francisco Superior court.
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“Google rejects all of the allegations in the case and maintains that it has completely complied with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations at all times,” according to a copy of the agreement shared by the legal firms.
According to the filer of complaint two law firms, the deal must still be approved by a judge.
Last year in 2021, Google agreed to pay the US Department of Labor $3.8 million in response to allegations that it discriminated against women and Asians.
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