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Google settles with Labor Department over alleged hiring and pay discrimination
The tech giant will pay almost $2.6 million to employees and job applicants. Listen - 02:19
The settlement includes back pay and interest to thousands of female engineers. Stephen Shankland/CNET
Google will pay almost $2.6 million to settle claims of systemic compensation and hiring discrimination at offices in California and Washington, the US Department of Labor said Monday.
The department said it found pay disparities that affected Google female engineering employees, as well as female and Asian job applicants. As part of the settlement, Google will provide $1.3 million in back pay and interest to almost 2,600 female engineers, and $1.2 million to almost 3,000 applicants who weren t hired.
Google will pay $2.5 million to underpaid female engineers and overlooked Asian applicants
The US Department of Labor alleges systemic pay and hiring discrimination
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Google has agreed to pay $2.5 million to more than 5,500 employees and job applicants impacted by alleged systematic pay and hiring discrimination. The US Department of Labor found that female software engineers were being underpaid. It also identified “hiring rate differences that disadvantaged female and Asian applicants” for Google engineering positions.
As part of the settlement, Google will hand over $1,353,052 in back pay and interest to 2,565 female engineers. It will also pay $1,232,000 in back pay and interest to 1,757 female engineering applicants and 1,219 Asian engineering applicants for “engineering positions not hired.”
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