Google to pay $3.8 million to underpaid female engineers and overlooked job candidates

Pay discrimination? In Silicon Valley? We're shocked.

Google will be forced to cough up roughly $3.8 million to settle allegations of pay and hiring discrimination, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday. At issue were allegations that the company paid women engineers less than their male counterparts and had a hiring process that disadvantaged both women and Asian applicants for software engineering roles. 

The Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) uncovered what it termed "systemic" problems over the course of a "a routine compliance evaluation" focused on Google's Mountain View, California; Seattle, Washington; and Kirkland, Washington offices in between 2014 and 2017.  Read more...