Google pays $118M to settle gender discrimination suit

By Agence France-Presse

Jun 13, 2022 12:34 pm

NEW YORK: Google said on Sunday that it was 'very pleased' to be settling, without admission of wrongdoing, a class-action lawsuit that argued it underpaid female employees and assigned them lower-ranking positions.

The $118 million settlement covers about 15,500 female employees who have worked for the company in California since September 2013, the law firms Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP and Altshuler Berzon LLP said in a statement released Friday night.

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