, requiring it to pay nearly $2.6 million in back wages to thousands of workers over claims that the company's pay and hiring practices illegally disadvantaged women and Asians.
The department said that as part of an audit of several Google locations in Washington state, California, and New York, it had identified"preliminary indicators" that Google had failed to comply with a 1965That audit revealed early evidence suggesting that, between 2014 and 2017, Google had paid female engineers at its Mountain View, California, as well as Seattle and Kirkland, Washington, locations"less than comparable male employees," according to the DOL.
"We believe everyone should be paid based upon the work they do, not who they are, and invest heavily to make our hiring and compensation processes fair and unbiased," Google spokesperson Jennifer Rodstrom told Insider in a statement.
That’s like $20 for them 😂
People shouldn't be hired due to their race or gender fitting into an equity checklist, they should be hired on merit alone.
Just a chicken change for such $billions company.
95% only bad news(
A drop in the bucket for them