S.F. s Pinterest commits to workplace culture changes after $22.5 million discrimination settlement
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Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann addresses a Pinterest media event at the company s corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California on April 24, 2014. Pinterest launched a tool to help people quickly sift through the roughly 30 billion Pins on the service s online bulletin boards to find what they like. AFP PHOTO / JOSH EDELSONJosh Edelson/AFP/Getty ImagesJosh Edelson / AFP / Getty Images
Pinterest on Wednesday committed to workplace policy changes meant to promote inclusion after multiple employees left the company this year over what they described as a discriminatory and retaliatory workplace at the highest levels.
Pinterest says it will adopt workplace culture recommendations
Pinterest has committed to adopting the recommendations from its special committee of the board of directors, the company wrote in a blog post today. The committee formed earlier this year in June, shortly after two former employees, Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks, went public with their allegations of racial and gender discrimination while working at Pinterest.
The committee, which retained law firm WilmerHale to conduct a workplace review, spoke with more than 350 current and former employees to make its recommendations geared toward improving diversity, equity and inclusion at Pinterest. Here are a few of those recommendations:
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image captionMs Brougher realised her pay was unfair when the firm disclosed executive compensation details for its public listing
Social media firm Pinterest has agreed to pay $22.5m (£16.9m) to settle claims of gender discrimination brought by its former chief operating officer.
The settlement with Francoise Brougher is the largest payout of its kind to be publicly announced.
The photo-sharing company, known for having a heavily female user base, said the action was part of a broader effort to improve its culture .
The case came amid other criticism from black female former staff.
In the lawsuit, filed in August, Ms Brougher accused Pinterest of excluding her from meetings after she pushed for equal pay.