Google hit with class action lawsuit over gender pay
7 years, 6 months ago

Google hit with class action lawsuit over gender pay

The Hindu  

Google faces a new lawsuit accusing it of gender-based pay discrimination. A lawyer representing three female former Google employees is seeking class action status for the claim. The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, follows a federal labor investigation that made a preliminary finding of systemic pay discrimination among the 21,000 employees at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. She says she quit Google in 2014 after male engineers with similar experience were hired to higher-paying job levels and she was denied a promotion despite excellent performance reviews. “It is time to stop ignoring these issues in tech.” Charges of gender discrimination have swirled at Alphabet Inc-owned Google since the US Labor Department sued in January to bar Google from doing business with the federal government until it released thousands of documents related to an audit over its pay practices.

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Google agrees to pay $28 million to settle claims it favored white and Asian workers
5 days, 13 hours ago

Google agrees to pay $28 million to settle claims it favored white and Asian workers

CNN  

Google agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming that it favored white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers. Google spokesperson Courtenay Mencini confirmed the settlement Tuesday but said: “We continue to disagree with the allegations that we treated anyone differently and remain committed to paying, …

Google ordered to compensate female executive $1.1 million for gender bias
1 year, 5 months ago

Google ordered to compensate female executive $1.1 million for gender bias

India TV News  

Google has been ordered to pay $1.1 million to Ulku Rowe, an executive who filed a complaint against the company for gender-based discrimination. In 2018, around 20,000 Google employees staged a walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment allegations and its broader workplace policies concerning equity and transparency. The jury's decision represents a significant development in the ongoing …

Google Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Allegedly Misusing Internet Data To Train Its AI Systems
1 year, 8 months ago

Google Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Allegedly Misusing Internet Data To Train Its AI Systems

ABP News  

A proposed class action lawsuit was filed against Google, accusing the company of misusing personal information and copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence systems. In response, Google's general counsel, Halimah DeLaine Prado, clarified that the company has long been transparent about its use of data from public sources, such as openly available information and public datasets, to responsibly train …

Google to Pay $118 Million to over 15,000 American Women for Settling Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
2 years, 9 months ago

Google to Pay $118 Million to over 15,000 American Women for Settling Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

News 18  

Google has agreed to pay $118 million to settle a class-action gender discrimination lawsuit involving approximately 15,500 women. The lawsuit first surfaced in 2017 when three women filed a complaint accusing the company of underpaying female employees in violation of California’s Equal Pay Act, citing a wage disparity of approximately $17,000. According to the California Government’s Department of Industrial Relations …

Google’s former female employees seek class-action status for gender-pay lawsuit
4 years, 8 months ago

Google’s former female employees seek class-action status for gender-pay lawsuit

Live Mint  

Four female former employees of Alphabet Inc.’s Google are trying to persuade a state court to let them represent more than 10,000 peers in a gender-pay disparity suit against the company, setting the stage for the next big battle over class-action status. Google paid women approximately $16,794 less per year than “the similarly-situated man,” the women said in a filing …

Google to pay $11 million to settle 227 age discrimination lawsuits
5 years, 8 months ago

Google to pay $11 million to settle 227 age discrimination lawsuits

India Today  

Google will pay a sum of $11 million to settle 227 claims from people who believe that they were treated unfairly and denied job at the company owing to their age. The original case against Google dates back to 2015 when a 60-year-old man named Rober Health said that he was deemed a "great candidate" by a Google recruiter. What …

Google pays women more than men in this one job category, gives men compensation for 'gender bias'
6 years ago

Google pays women more than men in this one job category, gives men compensation for 'gender bias'

India Today  

An internal study has revealed that Google pays its women employees more than its male employees in the Level 4 Software Engineer’ job category. Male employees compensated for 'gender bias' Forbes reported that because the female employees are paid more in this job category, the male employees are paid extra compensation to make up for the gender bias’ against them. …

Goldman Sachs, Google women march ahead with gender bias suits
6 years, 11 months ago

Goldman Sachs, Google women march ahead with gender bias suits

Live Mint  

San Francisco: The women of Wall Street got a boost Friday with a judge’s ruling allowing a group of as many as 2,300 female employees of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to pursue claims they didn’t get paid or promoted like their male counterparts. The lawsuit dates back to 2010 when two women accused Goldman Sachs of a “culture of discrimination” …

James Damore's Lawsuit Is Designed to Embarrass Google
55 years, 2 months ago

James Damore's Lawsuit Is Designed to Embarrass Google

Wired  

Last August, Google fired James Damore shortly after the engineer’s internal screed against affirmative action at the company went viral. Damore’s complaint includes 86 pages of screenshots from internal Google discussion forums, presented as evidence of alleged “anti-conservative” and “anti-Caucasian” bias, or Google’s alleged support for political violence. The lawsuit seeks class-action status, claiming that Google’s efforts to increase the …

Google — which is 61% white, 70% male — sued by ex-employee for discriminating against white male
7 years, 2 months ago

Google — which is 61% white, 70% male — sued by ex-employee for discriminating against white male

Salon  

Software engineer James Damore — who was fired by his employer, Google, after penning an anti-diversity manifesto reminiscent of discredited chauvinist theories of biological determinism — announced today that he intended to sue his former employer for discrimination. Damore had hired the Dhillon Law Group in the wake of Google sacking him, a decision that the company made after facing …

Gender Bias Suit Could Boost Pay, Open Promotions for Women at Google
55 years, 2 months ago

Gender Bias Suit Could Boost Pay, Open Promotions for Women at Google

Wired  

A lawsuit claiming Google systematically discriminates against women in pay and promotion could force the search giant, and other Silicon Valley companies, to change hiring and promotion practices. “Corporations pay attention to the potential of monetary liability and money relief produces reforms better than anything else that exists.” Google is also the subject of a US Department of Labor investigation …

Google accused of segregating women into lower-paid jobs
7 years, 6 months ago

Google accused of segregating women into lower-paid jobs

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Women at Google face diminished career prospects compared …

Google hit with class action lawsuit over gender pay
7 years, 6 months ago

Google hit with class action lawsuit over gender pay

Associated Press  

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Google faces a new lawsuit accusing it of gender-based pay discrimination. The suit, filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, follows a federal labor investigation that made a preliminary finding of systemic pay discrimination among the 21,000 employees at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. She says she quit Google in 2014 after male engineers with …

Google engineer sparks backlash after suggesting women unsuited to tech sector jobs
7 years, 7 months ago

Google engineer sparks backlash after suggesting women unsuited to tech sector jobs

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The essay argues that Google should stop its campaigns to increase gender and racial diversity and …

Danielle Brown, Google’s diversity chief, slams worker memo on gender inequality
7 years, 7 months ago

Danielle Brown, Google’s diversity chief, slams worker memo on gender inequality

Live Mint  

Chicago/New York: Illustrating how Silicon Valley is grappling with the role of women in technology, Google’s new diversity chief forcefully pushed back against a male worker’s argument that a “politically correct monoculture” ignores differences in capabilities between the sexes. In response, Google’s Danielle Brown said the worker “advanced incorrect assumptions about gender”. “We are unequivocal in our belief that diversity …

Google accused of ‘systematic’ underpayment of women workers across entire company
7 years, 11 months ago

Google accused of ‘systematic’ underpayment of women workers across entire company

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The agency found “systemic compensation disparities against women …

Google accused of underpaying female workers by US regulators
7 years, 11 months ago

Google accused of underpaying female workers by US regulators

India TV News  

The US Department of Labour has accused Google of discerning its female employees by underpaying them. The allegations surface days after Google announced on Equal Pay Day that it had "closed the gender pay gap globally". All employers can take steps to eliminate the gender and race pay gaps, today," @Google tweeted earlier this week. "We found systemic compensation disparities …

Google Accused Of Underpaying Female Employees
7 years, 11 months ago

Google Accused Of Underpaying Female Employees

NPR  

Google Accused Of Underpaying Female Employees Enlarge this image toggle caption Kim Jin-a/AP Kim Jin-a/AP Just three days after Google announced that it had "closed the gender pay gap globally" on Equal Pay Day, a Department of Labor official testified in federal court that there is "systemic" discrimination against women at Google. But a DoL official told The Guardian Friday …

Lawsuit against Google over Gmail faces hurdle, says US judge
11 years ago

Lawsuit against Google over Gmail faces hurdle, says US judge

Firstpost  

A US judge on Thursday said some plaintiffs accusing Google of improperly scanning their email faced a significant hurdle in their attempt to move forward with the lawsuit as a class action. Litigation brought by nine plaintiffs, some Gmail users, some not, was consolidated before US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, last year. The plaintiffs maintain Google …

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