Google pays US$118 million to settle gender discrimination suit


Google pays 15,500 female employees US$118 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that argued it underpaid female employees and assigned them lower-ranking positions. – EPA pic, June 13, 2022.

GOOGLE said yesterday it was “very pleased” to be settling, without admission of wrongdoing, a class-action lawsuit that argued it underpaid female employees and assigned them lower-ranking positions.

The US$118 million (RM521 million) settlement covers about 15,500 female employees who have worked for the company in California since September 2013, the law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Altshuler Berzon LLP said in a statement released Friday night.


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