Google is expected to pay nearly $ 2.6 million to settle allegations that it has paid thousands of workers badly and discriminated against female and Asian job candidates.
As part of the “early settlement” settlement agreement released by the Labor Department on Monday, the Silicon Valley giant will review its contracting and payment practices.
The agency found “preliminary indicators” of bias at five Google locations in Washington and California during a routine audit of affirmative action obligations.
The Department of Labor will not audit 39 Google sites in the next five years, according to the agreement dated January 15.
The late payment will be available to more than 2,500 women who worked at the company’s offices in Kirkland, Wash. And Seattle in 2017 and Mountain View, California in 2014 and 2015.
Another 3,000 women and Asian candidates for positions at Google offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, California, and Kirkland between 2016 and 2017 will also be eligible for a payment.
A Google spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the deal.