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Google 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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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…

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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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Google to pay $28 million to settle claims it favored white and Asian employees

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.

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Channel News Asia broke the news in Singapore on Tuesday, March 18, 2025.
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