Google is set to pay nearly $ 2.6 million to settle allegations that it has paid thousands of women workers and discriminated against female and Asian job seekers.
As part of the Department of Labor’s “early resolution” conciliation agreement launched Monday, the Silicon Valley giant will review its employment and payroll practices.
The agency found “preliminary indicators” of bias in five Google locations in Washington and California during a routine audit of affirmative action obligations.
The Department of Labor will not audit 39 Google locations in the next five years, according to the January 15 agreement.
The repayment will be available to over 2,500 women who worked at the company’s offices in Kirkland, Washington and Seattle in 2017 and Mountain View, California in 2014 and 2015.
Another 3,000 female and Asian candidates for positions at Google offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, California and Kirkland between 2016 and 2017 will also be eligible for a payment.
A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the solution.