Google plans to pay nearly $ 2.6 million to settle allegations that it has discriminated against thousands of underpaid women workers and women and Asian job applicants.
As part of the brokerage deal with an “early resolution” released by the Department of Labor on Monday, the Silicon Valley giant will review its hiring and payment practices.
The agency had found “preliminary indicators” of bias in five Google locations in Washington and California during a routine check of commitments to affirmative action.
According to the January 15 agreement, the Labor Department will not monitor 39 Google locations in the next five years.
The back pay is available to more than 2,500 women who entered the company’s offices in Kirkland, Wash. And Seattle have worked and in 2014 and 2015 in Mountain View, California.
An additional 3,000 female and Asian applicants for positions at Google’s offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, California and Kirkland between 2016 and 2017 are also eligible for payment.
A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the settlement.