The tool Google gave her to write a self-review is where she says the pay math fell apart
A Black executive at Google says it kept her pay below its own salary range for years - and that an internal AI tool is how she found out.
The executive, who has worked at Google's Cambridge, Massachusetts operation since 2017, sued the company on August 31 in federal court in Massachusetts. Her complaint accuses Google of race discrimination and retaliation under Title VII and Section 1981 - federal laws that bar race bias at work. She is Black, and the filing says the company underpaid her, held back her advancement, and retaliated after she complained.
For HR leaders, the case is worth a read because it touches so much of the function at once: pay equity, job leveling, performance ratings, arbitration terms, and whether an HR team actually resolves the complaints it gets.
Google's pay structure sits at the center of the filing. According to the complaint, the company gives every job a "level," and each level ties to a salary range and a "role profile" that reflects an employee's duties. The filing alleges Google slots Black employees into lower levels than they have earned, pays them less within those levels, and steers them toward roles with little room to grow. Performance reviews make it worse, the complaint says: it alleges Black employees are rated below what their work merits and are more likely to get a "Not Enough Impact" review, which the filing calls "the death knell for...
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