Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees

Google is guilty of a lot of things but this is a drive-by shakedown by predatory law firms.

&gt; 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.<p>Does anyone familiar with the case know the context behind this?

I wonder why “Black” employees were asked to be excluded from the lawsuit before Google agreed to settle.

does anyone care if they perform better or does even suggesting that make me a racist in the modern world?

$4,221 per employee is not a ton —- less after legal fees.

&quot;Cantu claimed she performed exemplary work over seven years in Google’s people operations and cloud departments, yet languished at the same job level while white and Asian peers got extra pay and promotions.&quot;<p>So this is an &quot;I feel wronged so I&#x27;m going to call you names&quot; trial, because the only person in question is Cantu.

Who is getting paid

lol, wait until the govt hears about Amazon engineering orgs. Or any other big tech company nowadays..

As much as we lampoon capitalism in western countries, it&#x27;s interesting the companies above a certain size are treated as public goods and not as a private venture. No one would enforce this on mom and pop shop or even a small chain store.

Lol... they paid out in a settlement back in 2021 for discriminating against asians.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;releases&#x2F;ofccp&#x2F;ofccp20210201" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dol.gov&#x2F;newsroom&#x2F;releases&#x2F;ofccp&#x2F;ofccp20210201</a>

This looks like a bad faith lawsuit to extract money. Given all the discrimination in corporate DEI programs, <i>especially</i> at big tech companies, what actually happened is almost certainly the opposite - white and asian employees were discriminated against, in favor of a set of groups that were seen as under represented. In reality, without the bias DEI programs created, white and asian employees would have probably been hired at higher rates and promoted more quickly.

Am I interpreting this correctly? It sounds like the lawsuit is filed on behalf of at least 6,632 employees. $28,000,000 distributed amongst that many is roughly $4,221.95. That&#x27;s not even accounting for the law firm&#x27;s stake. That seems like an absurdly low amount to pay to folks to say &quot;sorry we screwed your career over&quot;.<p>Google can and absolutely should be paying these people more in compensation.