Google said it was pleased they had resolved the issue.
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google will spend $ 3.8 million, including $ 2.6 million on repayment, to settle allegations that they underpaid women and unfairly transferred to women and Asians for work options, the U.S. Department of Labor said Monday. said.
The allegations stem from a routine compliance audit required a few years ago by Google’s status as a technology provider to the federal government.
Google said it was pleased they had resolved the issue.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs found ‘preliminary indicators’ that from 2014 to 2017, Google sometimes underpaid 2,783 women in its software engineering team in Mountain View, California and the Seattle area.
Investigators also found that hiring rates hired by women and Asian candidates during the year ended August 31, 2017 for software engineering roles in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, California, and Kirkland, Washington.
The settlement includes $ 2.6 million in reimbursement to 5,500 employees and job candidates and calls on Google to review hiring and salary practices.
Google will also set aside $ 1.25 million for adjusting salaries for engineers in Mountain View, Kirkland, Seattle and New York, according to the settlement. Unused funds are spent on diversity efforts at Google.
The company already conducts annual pay audits, but like other large technology companies, it remains scrutinized 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 should invest heavily to make our hiring and compensation processes fair and unbiased.”
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