Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
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Re: Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
#2lol, wait until the govt hears about Amazon engineering orgs. Or any other big tech company nowadays..
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#4$4,221 per employee is not a ton —- less after legal fees.
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#5Google is guilty of a lot of things but this is a drive-by shakedown by predatory law firms.
Re: Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
#6I wonder why “Black” employees were asked to be excluded from the lawsuit before Google agreed to settle.
Re: Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
#7> Adams said the settlement came after Cantu’s lawyers agreed this month to exclude Black employees from the proposed class action, which Google had sought.
Does anyone familiar with the case know the context behind this?
Re: Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
#8I wonder why “Black” employees were asked to be excluded from the lawsuit before Google agreed to settle.
? https://www.statista.com/statistics/311810/google-employee-e...
shows 5 percent black people. not a huge amount
Re: Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
#9I wonder why “Black” employees were asked to be excluded from the lawsuit before Google agreed to settle.
I wondered that too. Maybe the data presented by the plaintiffs showed that they were less egregiously or obviously affected?
Re: Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees
#10$4,221 per employee is not a ton —- less after legal fees.
Perhaps that is a clue!