Google will have to pay about $ 2.6 million to settle claims that it paid less than thousands of workers and discriminated against female and Asian job seekers.
As part of the “early resolution” conciliation agreement released Monday by the Department of Labor, the Silicon Valley giant will review its hiring and compensation practices.
The agency had found “preliminary bias indicators” at five Google locations in Washington and California during a routine audit of affirmative action obligations.
Under the Jan. 15 agreement, the Department of Labor will not audit 39 Google locations for the next five years.
Remuneration will be available to more than 2,500 women who worked at the company’s offices in Kirkland, Washington, and Seattle in 2017 and Mountain View, California in 2014 and 2015.
Another 3,000 female and Asian candidates will also be able to be paid at Google’s offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, California and Kirkland between 2016 and 2017.
A Google spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the deal.