Tech giant also agrees to review annual pay equity audits
Google has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a high-profile class action alleging that the tech company favoured White and Asian employees when it comes to pay.
Judge Charles Adams of the Santa Clara County Superior Court granted preliminary approval of the settlement last week, according to Gunn Coble LLP, a Los Angeles civil rights law firm that represented the plaintiffs.
Under the settlement, Google also agreed to work with a labour economist and an industrial or occupational psychologist to review its annual pay equity audits.
They would also review the recommendations to address the allegations raised in the lawsuit.
Ana Cantu, who identifies as Mexican and racially Indigenous, led the class-action suit in 2021 for at least 6,632 people who were employed by Google between 15 February 2018 and 31 December 2024, according to Reuters.
The suit accused Google of paying employees who identified as Hispanic, Latinx, Indigenous, Native American, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islands and/or Alaska Native less than their White, Asian, or Asian American employees for carrying out similar work.
According to Gunn Coble, Cantu relied on a 2022 employee internal pay spreadsheet that leaked, showing that Google's diverse employees had lower compensation than White, Asian and Asian-American workers.
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