{"id":23921,"date":"2022-06-13T10:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=23921"},"modified":"2022-06-14T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:32:53","slug":"google-agrees-to-pay-118-million-to-over-15000-female-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/google-agrees-to-pay-118-million-to-over-15000-female-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Agrees To Pay $118 Million To Over 15,000 Female Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"1\">Google has agreed to pay $118 million to more than 15,000 female employees to settle a long-running gender discrimination and fair pay lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"2\">Google&#8217;s decision means female employees in 236 job titles in California since September 14, 2013, will now receive an average compensation of about $7,600 each.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\" data-ar-index=\"3\">The settlement will also ensure the provision of an independent industrial organizational psychologist to analyze Google&#8217;s hiring practices and ensure fairness in pay.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"4\">The lawsuit was filed in September 2017 by former Google employees Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease, Kelli Wisuri and Heidi Lamar. It also highlighted Google&#8217;s pay gap among employees. In 2021, Google was accused of paying its female employees $17,009 a year less than male employees doing the same work.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\" data-ar-index=\"5\">The former employees who filed the lawsuit hope the settlement will open new doors for equal pay for workers in organizations in the United States and beyond.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_7\" data-ar-index=\"7\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/news\/google-pays-out-dollar118-million-to-female-staff-who-earned-less-than-their-male\/k5hc5bw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BusinessInsiderAfrica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has agreed to pay $118 million to more than 15,000 female employees to settle a long-running gender discrimination and fair pay lawsuit. Google&#8217;s decision means female employees in 236 job titles in California since September 14, 2013, will now receive an average compensation of about $7,600 each. The settlement will also ensure the provision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,30],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-23921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","category-women-in-tech","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23924,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23921\/revisions\/23924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}