Google said it was pleased to have resolved the matter.
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Alphabet Inc’s Google will spend $ 3.8 million, including $ 2.6 million in arrears, to settle charges that it paid women badly and wrongly rejected women and Asians in jobs, the Department said. of Labor in the United States on Monday.
The allegations resulted from a routine compliance audit several years ago required by Google’s status as a technology supplier to the federal government.
Google said it was pleased to have resolved the matter.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs found “preliminary indicators” that Google from 2014 to 2017 sometimes paid badly 2,783 women in its software engineering group in Mountain View, California, and in the Seattle area.
The investigators also found differences in hiring rates that hurt Asian women and candidates during the year ending August 31, 2017, for software engineering roles in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, California, and Kirkland, Washington.
The deal includes $ 2.6 million in compensation to 5,500 employees and job seekers and asks Google to review hiring and salary practices.
Google will also set aside $ 1.25 million in salary adjustments for engineers in Mountain View, Kirkland, Seattle and New York over the next five years, according to the agreement. Any unused funds will be spent on diversity efforts at Google.
The company already conducts annual salary audits, but like other large technology companies, it remains under public scrutiny for a workforce that does not reflect the country’s composition in terms of race and gender.
The company said in a statement, “We believe that everyone should be paid based on the work they do, not who they are, and invest heavily to make our hiring and compensation processes fair and impartial.”
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