Google settles allegations of hiring, pay inequities

The company will also distribute more than $ 1.2 million in refunds and interest to 1,757 women and 1,219 Asian applicants for unemployed software engineering positions.

Google said the company has invested heavily in making its recruiting and payment processes as fair as possible.

“For the past eight years, we have conducted an annual internal fee equity analysis to identify and address any discrepancies. “We are delighted to address this issue regarding the allegations in the 2014-2017 audits and to adhere to diversity and equality and to support our employees in a way they do their best job.

The company faced lawsuits One of the former employees who claimed to pay for inequalities between men and women in jobs beyond software engineering.

The company, according to its latest diversification, consisted of 32% women and 68% men in 2020. notification. This was a small change from Google’s 2019 report showing that 31.6% of its workforce is women and 68.4% are men.

The report revealed that in 2020, 41.9% of the company’s employees were Asian; this number increased compared to 2019, when this number was just under 40%. According to the latest report, about a third of Asians at the company are women.