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Google has agreed to pay US$28 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed white and Asian employees were given better pay and career opportunities than workers from other ethnic backgrounds.
That’s according to a law firm representing claimants.
The technology giant confirmed it had reached a resolution but rejected the allegations made against it.
The case filed in 2021 by former Google employee, Ana Cantu, said workers from Hispanic, Latino, Native American and other backgrounds started on lower salaries and job levels than their white and Asian counterparts.
The case brought by Cantu against Google relied on a leaked internal document, which allegedly showed that employees from some ethnic backgrounds reported lower compensation for similar work.
According to Cantu’s lawyers, the practice of basing starting pay and job level on prior salaries reinforced historical race and ethnicity-based disparities.
Reuters news agency has reported that the class action lawsuit was filed for at least 6,632 people who were employed by Google between February 15, 2018 and December 31, 2024.
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