Current Events > Google being sued for alleged systemic bias against Black employees

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https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/google-is-accused-lawsuit-systemic-bias-against-black-employees-2022-03-18/

March 18 (Reuters) - A lawsuit filed on Friday accuses Google of systemic racial bias against Black employees, saying the search engine company steers them to lower-level jobs, pays them less and denies them opportunities to advance because of their race.

According to a complaint seeking class-action status, Google maintains a "racially biased corporate culture" that favors white men, where Black people comprise only 4.4% of employees and about 3% of leadership and its technology workforce.

The plaintiff, April Curley, also said the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit subjected Blacks to a hostile work environment, including by often requiring they show identification or be questioned by security at its Mountain View, California campus....

...The complaint was filed in the federal court in San Jose, California.

It came after that state's civil rights regulator, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, began investigating Google's treatment of Black female workers and possible discrimination in their workplace. read more

Curley said Google hired her in 2014 to design an outreach program to historically Black colleges.

She said her hiring proved to be a "marketing ploy," as supervisors began denigrating her work, stereotyping her as an "angry" Black woman and passing her over for promotions.

Curley said Google fired her in September 2020 after she and her colleagues began working on a list of desired reforms.

"While Google claims that they were looking to increase diversity, they were actually undervaluing, underpaying and mistreating their Black employees," Curley's lawyer Ben Crump said in a statement.

Crump is a civil rights lawyer who also represented the family of George Floyd after he was killed in May 2020 by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Curley's lawsuit seeks to recoup compensatory and punitive damages and lost compensation for current and former Black employees at Google, and to restore them to their appropriate positions and seniority.

The case is Curley v Google LLC, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 22-01735.

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between this and that black town being taken over by local government because they started turning profits systematic racism is alive and well but we can't talk about it because that's considered CRT

>they don't know

Coporate is filled with ways to discriminate
The newest tradition is to get you to do something on video as a response to you applying
That way they can just filter you out on if your personality doesn't 'suit' the company and definitely not if you don't fit into their racist/classist/sexist group

right around the same time they stopped using the

"Dont be evil." motto.

Should have never stopped not being evil, Google.

to no one's surprise.

Well Google has showed trends of inherent bias in policy practices before.

Remember the infamous audit they did in the past to combat a systemic wage gap supposedly targeting woman employees...only to find out it was proven mostly the men being underpaid?

The internet remembers, so do I.

Robot2600 posted...

Should have never stopped not being evil, Google.

Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-KOOFoawsg

not surprised. this happens in all jobs.

ClockworkHare posted...

Remember the infamous audit they did in the past to combat a systemic wage gap supposedly targeting woman employees...only to find out it was proven mostly the men being underpaid?

The internet remembers, so do I.

Thanks for mentioning it.

I feel like its something I actually did forget about that, so Ill have to research it a bit. I only remember that controversy with James Damore.

Well that explains why the homepage is white