Zone1 "Don't be evil." Google Agrees to Pay $28M In Racial Bias Lawsuit, After Black Employees Excluded

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

More on this case to come...

March 20, 2025

Google has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it favored white and Asian employees over other racial and ethnic groups by offering them higher salaries and placing them on faster career tracks. Reuters reports that the settlement was reached after lawyers agreed to exclude Black workers from the class.

The Case Against Google​

The lawsuit was led by Ana Cantu, who worked at Google for seven years in its people operations and cloud departments. She claimed she was repeatedly overlooked for promotions and salary increases while white and Asian colleagues advanced.

Cantu, who is Mexican and racially Indigenous, alleged that Google systematically placed white and Asian employees in higher job “levels” than their peers performing the same work, leading to disparities in pay and career growth. She also argued that Google’s practice of basing starting pay and job levels on prior salaries reinforced racial and ethnic wage gaps, violating the California Equal Pay Act.

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Google Agrees To Pay $28M In Racial Bias Lawsuit, After Black Employees Excluded

 

[1srelluc]

Maybe the whites and asians had more going for them.

They should have took it to court and appealed any wrongful decision.

LOL....Class action, the only winners are the lawyers.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

It was a payoff to put it behind them. Squeaky wheel gets the grease

 

[MarathonMike]

alleged that Google systematically placed white and Asian employees in higher job “levels” than their peers performing the same work

Note the key phrase of the lawsuit "performing the same work". I recall during my 38 year career in Engineering, people were not promoted based on performing THE SAME WORK as their peers. They were promoted by doing that same work BETTER than their peers. I'll bet the OP experienced the same during her engineering career.

 

[d0gbreath]

Maybe the whites and asians had more going for them.

They should have took it to court and appealed any wrongful decision.

LOL....Class action, the only winners are the lawyers.

Sad, but true. After the lawyers take over half, the litigants will be lucky to get $500 each.

 

[MarathonMike]

Sad, but true. After the lawyers take over half, the litigants will be lucky to get $500 each.

Not quite, but given the massive awards in these class action settlements, the lawyers often get HUNDREDS of millions in awards. I was part of a class action a long time ago in a stock that went to zero under questionable circumstances. The lawyers got over $100 million and I received 90 bucks on a $10K loss!

 

[Dr.Know]

OK, here is whats going to happen ; the Lawyers will get their cut and the rest of the money will evaporate into the Deep State black hole. Typical black op,,,,,use DEI issues to extract money as nobody would ever dare question it because its just not nice. Plaintiffs will get 100$ if anything.

 

[August West]

OK, here is whats going to happen ; the Lawyers will get their cut and the rest of the money will evaporate into the Deep State black hole. Typical black op,,,,,use DEI issues to extract money as nobody would ever dare question it because its just not nice. Plaintiffs will get 100$ if anything.

Crazy people say things like "deep state", and they also believe that Jewish space lasers are starting wildfires. Is this you, Marge?

 

[Andrew_Jackson_FTW]

A drop in the bucket of water compared to the systemic racism against white men brought us by big business big media since George Floyd..

Nobody can forget racial hiring quotas by the NFL, major businesses like Nike and so many more. The Oscars forcing themselves to nominate minorities for awards. It’s outright racism, proven that they lower the hiring standards for people who are not white men. And then the left wing turns around in lies about it. Or they support it.

Not to mention also the violence, BLM violence, the most violent political group and recent American history is the radical left. They killed 30 people injured thousands in summer of 2020.


I wonder what it’s like to be a radical leftist. Either they knowingly believe and lies or they’re just lying every day for their own benefit. Like it is with the reparations argument “oh Black people were slaves in America” white people were slaves too in Africa….

I hope the Trump administration can get DEI and BLM out of life in America. Let’s go back to a merit based system.

 

[Mac-7]

More on this case to come...

March 20, 2025

Google has agreed to pay $28 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it favored white and Asian employees over other racial and ethnic groups by offering them higher salaries and placing them on faster career tracks. Reuters reports that the settlement was reached after lawyers agreed to exclude Black workers from the class.

The Case Against Google​

The lawsuit was led by Ana Cantu, who worked at Google for seven years in its people operations and cloud departments. She claimed she was repeatedly overlooked for promotions and salary increases while white and Asian colleagues advanced.

Cantu, who is Mexican and racially Indigenous, alleged that Google systematically placed white and Asian employees in higher job “levels” than their peers performing the same work, leading to disparities in pay and career growth. She also argued that Google’s practice of basing starting pay and job levels on prior salaries reinforced racial and ethnic wage gaps, violating the California Equal Pay Act.

Story continued here:
Google Agrees To Pay $28M In Racial Bias Lawsuit, After Black Employees Excluded

I’m guessing that not all black or mexicsn employees were held back from promotion

Those who can read and write probably did ok

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

A drop in the bucket of water compared to the systemic racism against white men brought us by big business big media since George Floyd..

Nobody can forget racial hiring quotas by the NFL, major businesses like Nike and so many more. The Oscars forcing themselves to nominate minorities for awards. It’s outright racism, proven that they lower the hiring standards for people who are not white men. And then the left wing turns around in lies about it. Or they support it.

Not to mention also the violence, BLM violence, the most violent political group and recent American history is the radical left. They killed 30 people injured thousands in summer of 2020.


I wonder what it’s like to be a radical leftist. Either they knowingly believe and lies or they’re just lying every day for their own benefit. Like it is with the reparations argument “oh Black people were slaves in America” white people were slaves too in Africa….

I hope the Trump administration can get DEI and BLM out of life in America. Let’s go back to a merit based system.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

"her" lol

The OP is a dude. He's a bitter college washout, never working a single day in engineering.

Check yourself

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Note the key phrase of the lawsuit "performing the same work". I recall during my 38 year career in Engineering, people were not promoted based on performing THE SAME WORK as their peers. They were promoted by doing that same work BETTER than their peers. I'll bet the OP experienced the same during her engineering career.

Damn, you all are a sad lot.

There are job codes & titles which have a minimum pay rate, a mid pay rate and a maximum pay rate. There are also pay steps.

So two people with the same job codes at the same tenure should be earning approximately the same amount if they both started from the same place.

Steering workers into job categories with lower rates is one way to accomplish paying them less. Putting them into higher paying positions without the requisite skills or ability to perform all of the functions of that their position is how some people get into other high paying positions.

When you see sloppiness in the work they turn in (such as all of the websites removed and then have to be restored in an effort to scrub the federal websites of DEI, FOR EXAMPLE), or in alleged inadvertent publication of sensitive PII such as salary or other metrics, visible to the entire company, that's usually due to lack of experience.

But when they resort to having to steal the work (code) of others to get their own work done, that's a pretty definitive tell-tale sign.

 

[Andrew_Jackson_FTW]

There’s always been poor whites and poor blacks…. struggle is the same.

 

[IM2]

You're wrong Michael.

 

[IM2]

Marathon Mike,

You have an extreme mental disorder. You are a racist, but you try claiming that racism isn't a problem anymore.

Modern racism is a belief that reflects an underlying prejudice towards black and non-white people in the United States. The difference between contemporary racism from Jim Crow racism is that the attacks focus on a group’s culture instead of claiming genetic superiority. Modern racism is primarily done online on social media. Modern racists will not express openly racist views. They believe racism is over and that racism is a thing of the past.

Modern racism happens like this:
• Avoiding any meaningful contact with the minority group.
• Practicing racial discrimination when the circumstances allow it.
• Rather than criticizing a minority group, those with racist beliefs will attack a policy or action, and use that as an outlet for their attitudes.
• Making a distinction between groups in terms of their ‘values

Modern racism is a belief that: 1) Blacks no longer face much prejudice or discrimination, 2) Black failure to progress results from their unwillingness to work hard enough, 3) Blacks are demanding too much too fast, and 4) Blacks have gotten more than they deserve.

This forum is full of whites with this behavior. You are one of them.

Eoin Higgins, The White Backlash to the Civil Rights Movement, May 22, 2014, The White Backlash to the Civil Rights Movement ·

Herbert Blumer, Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position, The Pacific Sociological Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1958), pp. 3-7, University of California Press, https://yale.imodules.com/s/1667/im...essionid=bbd5b899-fe7f-4f1d-9644-6e265cfd1da3

Lawrence Bobo, James R. Kluegel, and Ryan A, Smith, “Laissez-Faire Racism: The Crystallization of a ‘Kindler, Genter’ Anti-black
Ideology” (Russell Sage Foundation: June 1996, Copyright 1996.

Russell Sage Foundation, L Bobo, J. Kluegel, R. Smith, "Laissez

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N., Sam M.S., Modern Racism, What is MODERN RACISM? definition of MODERN RACISM (Psychology Dictionary)

Binna Kandola and Pearn Kandola, What is modern racism and how and why has racism mutated?, What is modern racism and how and why has racism mutated? | theHRD

Sears, D. O., & Henry, P. J. (2003). The origins of symbolic racism. https://condor.depaul.edu/phenry1/2003 Sears & Henry, JPSP.pdf

You seem to believe that just because you are white you can challenge everything we say when we point out modern racism and that your uneducated factless, emotion-riddled bs is the definitive opinion regardless of the true facts presented.. This is another example of how white racism manifests itself today.

“Because most whites have not been trained to think with complexity about racism, and because it benefits white dominance not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of it. We are the least likely to see, comprehend, or be invested in validating people of color’s assertions of racism and being honest about their consequences. At the same time, because of white social, economic, and political power within a white dominant culture, whites are the group in the position to legitimize people of color’s assertions of racism. Being in this position engenders a form of racial arrogance, and in this racial arrogance, whites have little compunction about debating the knowledge of people who have thought deeply about race through research, study, peer-reviewed scholarship, deep and on-going critical self-reflection, interracial relationships, and lived experience. This expertise is often trivialized and countered with simplistic platitudes, such as ‘people just need to see each other as individuals’ or ‘see each other as humans’ or ‘take personal responsibility.’

White lack of racial humility often leads to declarations of disagreement when in fact the problem is that we do not understand. Whites generally feel free to dismiss informed perspectives rather than have the humility to acknowledge that they are unfamiliar, reflect on them further, seek more information, or sustain a dialogue.”

Dr. Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, Vol 3 (2011) pp. 54, http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/249/116#

Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Why Can’t We All Just Be Individuals? Countering the Discourse of Individualism in Anti-racist Education, pg. 16 https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/deibexplorer/files/why_cant_we_all_just_be_individuals.pdf

Mike this applies to you and every other right-wing white person in this forum. Your ass has never had think about race because your race has been the one benefitting from racism. Those of us who have faced the racism know it when we see it and the white man who has benefitted from racism really needs to keep his mouth shut instead of always trying to rush in thinking he's saying something contradictory that disproves what we say. All you are doing is showing more evidence of the existence of modern white racism.

 

[Dr.Know]

Crazy people say things like "deep state", and they also believe that Jewish space lasers are starting wildfires. Is this you, Marge?

Deep State is a more encompassing term that replaced the old "Military Industrial Complex". You are a NORMIE and should be on a normie forum. Jewish space Lasers ???? what does a religion have to do with lasers ??? that is very weird and is like saying Buddhist atomic bombs.

 

[MarathonMike]

Marathon Mike,

You have an extreme mental disorder. You are a racist, but you try claiming that racism isn't a problem anymore.

Modern racism is a belief that reflects an underlying prejudice towards black and non-white people in the United States. The difference between contemporary racism from Jim Crow racism is that the attacks focus on a group’s culture instead of claiming genetic superiority. Modern racism is primarily done online on social media. Modern racists will not express openly racist views. They believe racism is over and that racism is a thing of the past.

Modern racism happens like this:
• Avoiding any meaningful contact with the minority group.
• Practicing racial discrimination when the circumstances allow it.
• Rather than criticizing a minority group, those with racist beliefs will attack a policy or action, and use that as an outlet for their attitudes.
• Making a distinction between groups in terms of their ‘values

Modern racism is a belief that: 1) Blacks no longer face much prejudice or discrimination, 2) Black failure to progress results from their unwillingness to work hard enough, 3) Blacks are demanding too much too fast, and 4) Blacks have gotten more than they deserve.

This forum is full of whites with this behavior. You are one of them.

Eoin Higgins, The White Backlash to the Civil Rights Movement, May 22, 2014, The White Backlash to the Civil Rights Movement ·

Herbert Blumer, Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position, The Pacific Sociological Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1958), pp. 3-7, University of California Press, https://yale.imodules.com/s/1667/im...essionid=bbd5b899-fe7f-4f1d-9644-6e265cfd1da3

Lawrence Bobo, James R. Kluegel, and Ryan A, Smith, “Laissez-Faire Racism: The Crystallization of a ‘Kindler, Genter’ Anti-black
Ideology” (Russell Sage Foundation: June 1996, Copyright 1996.

Russell Sage Foundation, L Bobo, J. Kluegel, R. Smith, "Laissez

Free essays, homework help, flashcards, research papers, book reports, term papers, history, science, politics

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N., Sam M.S., Modern Racism, What is MODERN RACISM? definition of MODERN RACISM (Psychology Dictionary)

Binna Kandola and Pearn Kandola, What is modern racism and how and why has racism mutated?, What is modern racism and how and why has racism mutated? | theHRD

Sears, D. O., & Henry, P. J. (2003). The origins of symbolic racism. https://condor.depaul.edu/phenry1/2003 Sears & Henry, JPSP.pdf

You seem to believe that just because you are white you can challenge everything we say when we point out modern racism and that your uneducated factless, emotion-riddled bs is the definitive opinion regardless of the true facts presented.. This is another example of how white racism manifests itself today.

“Because most whites have not been trained to think with complexity about racism, and because it benefits white dominance not to do so, we have a very limited understanding of it. We are the least likely to see, comprehend, or be invested in validating people of color’s assertions of racism and being honest about their consequences. At the same time, because of white social, economic, and political power within a white dominant culture, whites are the group in the position to legitimize people of color’s assertions of racism. Being in this position engenders a form of racial arrogance, and in this racial arrogance, whites have little compunction about debating the knowledge of people who have thought deeply about race through research, study, peer-reviewed scholarship, deep and on-going critical self-reflection, interracial relationships, and lived experience. This expertise is often trivialized and countered with simplistic platitudes, such as ‘people just need to see each other as individuals’ or ‘see each other as humans’ or ‘take personal responsibility.’

White lack of racial humility often leads to declarations of disagreement when in fact the problem is that we do not understand. Whites generally feel free to dismiss informed perspectives rather than have the humility to acknowledge that they are unfamiliar, reflect on them further, seek more information, or sustain a dialogue.”

Dr. Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, Vol 3 (2011) pp. 54, http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/249/116#

Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Why Can’t We All Just Be Individuals? Countering the Discourse of Individualism in Anti-racist Education, pg. 16 https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/deibexplorer/files/why_cant_we_all_just_be_individuals.pdf

Mike this applies to you and every other right-wing white person in this forum. Your ass has never had think about race because your race has been the one benefitting from racism. Those of us who have faced the racism know it when we see it and the white man who has benefitted from racism really needs to keep his mouth shut instead of always trying to rush in thinking he's saying something contradictory that disproves what we say. All you are doing is showing more evidence of the existence of modern white racism.

I sense your rage about the Race issue, but I can't help but wonder what it is exactly that you have "faced" since 1970 until now? You have previously shared that you have been the victim of sexual advances from White men, but I pointed out that could have been more about your attractiveness than any sort of Racist entitlement by White men. Anything else? From what I surmise from your posts and other minorities on this board, you have all done QUITE WELL for yourselves and should be thankful for the many opportunities made available to you being an American. Prior to 1970 our country was a MUCH different place and I fully agree that Racism was rampant and debilitating to Black people. Prior to 1970.

 

[August West]

Deep State is a more encompassing term that replaced the old "Military Industrial Complex". You are a NORMIE and should be on a normie forum. Jewish space Lasers ???? what does a religion have to do with lasers ??? that is very weird and is like saying Buddhist atomic bombs.

It was the crackpot QAnon that put forth the nonsense that Israeli made space lasers were starting the wildfires in California and MTG bought into it.

 

[Sparker]

Google has started to destroy itself. Google employees will be looking for exit options.