Google said it was pleased to resolve the issue.
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Google, from Alphabet Inc., to spend $ 3.8 million, including $ 2.6 million on salary, to settle allegations of underpaid women and unfairly surpassing women and Asians for jobs said the US Department of Labor on Monday.
The allegations came from a routine compliance audit a few years ago, required by Google’s status as a technology provider for the federal government.
Google said it was pleased to resolve the issue.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs found “preliminary indicators” that Google, from 2014 to 2017, sometimes paid 2,783 women in its software engineering group in Mountain View, California and the Seattle area.
Investigators also found employment rate differences that disadvantaged Asian women and candidates during the year ended August 31, 2017, for software engineering roles in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, California and Kirkland, Washington.
The agreement includes $ 2.6 million in salary back to 5,500 employees and job seekers and calls on Google to review hiring practices and salaries.
Google will also allocate $ 1.25 million in salary adjustments to engineers in Mountain View, Kirkland, Seattle and New York over the next five years, according to the agreement. Any unused funds will be spent on Google’s diversity efforts.
The company already conducts annual payment audits, but like other large technology companies, it remains under public control for a workforce that does not reflect the country’s structure in terms of race and gender.
The company said in a statement: “We believe that everyone should be paid according to the work they do, not who they are, and invest a lot so that our hiring and compensation processes are fair and impartial.”
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