Google settles Black employees’ racial bias lawsuit for $50 million

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settles ****** employees’ racial bias lawsuit for $50 million

By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) –

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agreed to pay $50 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the search engine company of systemic racial bias against ****** employees.

A preliminary settlement covering more than 4,000

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employees in California and New York was filed on Thursday evening in the Oakland, California federal court, and requires a judge’s approval.

Plaintiffs in the proposed class action said

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has a “racially biased corporate culture” where management steers ******* to lower-level jobs, pays them less, downgrades their performance ratings and denies them opportunities to advance.

According to the complaint, ****** employees comprised only 4.4% of

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’s workforce and 3% of its leadership in 2021.

The plaintiff April Curley, hired to expand outreach to historically ****** colleges, said

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denied her promotions, stereotyped her as an “angry” ****** woman, and fired her after six years as she prepared a report on its alleged racial bias.

Managers also allegedly denigrated ****** employees by declaring they were not “Googley” enough or lacked “Googleyness,” which the plaintiffs called racial dog whistles.

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, a unit of Mountain View, California-based Alphabet, denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle, and said it fully complied with all applicable laws. It had no immediate additional comment on Friday.

The lawsuit began in March 2022 after a regulator now known as the California Civil Rights Department started investigating

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’s treatment of ****** female employees.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs may seek up to $12.5 million of the settlement fund in fees. On Monday, the lawyers dismissed related claims brought on behalf of job applicants, citing evidence they had gathered and

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’s “reasoned arguments.”

The case is Curley et al v

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LLC, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 22-01735.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Bill Berkrot)

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