Google said it was pleased to have resolved the matter.
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Google Alphabet Inc. will invest $ 3.8 million, including $ 2.6 million in compensation, to resolve allegations that it was underpaying women and that it was unfairly passed on to women and Asians to open jobs work, the U.S. Department of Labor said Monday.
The allegations came from a routine compliance audit several years ago required by Google’s state as a federal government technology provider.
Google said it was pleased to have resolved the matter.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs had found “preliminary indicators” that Google from 2014 to 2017 sometimes paid 2,783 women in its software engineering group in Mountain View, California and the Seattle area.
Researchers also found recruitment rate differences that disadvantaged Asian and women candidates during the year ended August 31, 2017 for software engineering functions in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, California and Kirkland, Washington.
The settlement includes $ 2.6 million in compensation to 5,500 employees and job seekers and asks Google to review hiring practices and salaries.
Google will also allocate $ 1.25 million for salary adjustments to engineers in Mountain View, Kirkland, Seattle and New York over the next five years, according to the agreement. All unused funds will go to diversity efforts at Google.
The company already conducts annual salary audits, but, like other large technology companies, it remains under public control to obtain a workforce that does not reflect the country’s composition in terms of race and gender.
The company said in a statement: “We believe everyone should be paid based on the work they do, not who they are, and invest a lot to make our hiring and compensation processes fair and impartial.”
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