You, yes, thousands of you, take this $4m and get back to work
Google will pay at least $3.8m to settle a dispute with Uncle Sam in which the ad giant was accused of paying woman engineers less than their male colleagues, and for discriminating against female and Asian candidates applying for technical positions. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the US government’s Department of Labor launched a formal probe into the Silicon Valley goliath after officials conducted a routine audit of Google’s hiring practices. That investigation found evidence that the mega-corp underpaid its female employees in its Mountain View headquarters in California, as well as in Seattle and Kirkland, Washington, and was less likely to hire female and Asian software engineers applying for roles in San Francisco and Sunnyvale in California as well as Kirkland. “Pay discrimination remains a systemic problem,” compliance office director Jenny Yang said in a statement.
