US EditionGoogle to pay $28 million to settle claims it favored white and Asian employees
- Google has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed it favored white and Asian employees by providing them with higher pay and better promotions compared to other workers.
- Judge Charles Adams of the Santa Clara County Superior Court called the settlement fair and reasonable for at least 6,632 affected employees.
- Ana Cantu, who led the lawsuit, claimed Google violated the California Equal Pay Act by systematically paying non-white and non-Asian workers less than their white and Asian counterparts.
- Affected employees, including Latino and Indigenous workers, will receive approximately $3,000 each from the settlement.
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Judge Approves Settlement: Google Told Hispanic Plaintiffs If You Drop Black Employees From Lawsuit, We Will Settle For $28 Million
Google has agreed to a $28 million settlement to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the tech giant of favoring white and Asian employees over their Hispanic, Latinx, Indigenous, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Alaska Native colleagues. The lawsuit, led by Ana Cantu, claimed that Google systematically paid these underrepresented groups less and denied them promotions compared to white and Asian counterparts performing…
Lawsuit filed in 2021 by a former employee alleged that white and Asian workers received better salaries and career opportunities from their Hispanic, Latino, and other colleagues. Google agreed to pay US$ 28 million (about R$ 159 million) to settle a lawsuit for racial prejudice, which alleged that white and Asian employees received better salaries and career opportunities than workers from other ethnic backgrounds.
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Google to pay $28 million to settle claim it paid White and Asian workers more
More than 6,000 current and former Latino, Indigenous and Pacific Islander employees of Google will receive about $3,000 each from the company after it settled a class-action lawsuit claiming it paid White and Asian workers more. Ana Cantu, of Mexican and Indigenous heritage, was hired at Google in 2014 as head of a social media unit, quit the Mountain View digital-advertising giant in 2021 and sued it the same month. Her department at Google wa…
Google agrees to pay $28 million to settle claims it favored white and Asian workers
Google agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming that it favored white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers.
Google has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit filed after white and Asian employees received better pay and career opportunities than workers of other ethnicities, a law firm said.
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