Google settles federal gender and race discrimination charges for $3.8M

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Google has agreed to a $3.8 million settlement with federal regulators to settle allegations that it both underpaid women software engineers and unfairly passed over women and Asian candidates for software engineering roles.

The settlement breaks down into three pools, the US Department of Labor announced Monday. As part of the agreement, about 2,500 women who currently work in engineering positions for Google will receive a total of $1.35 million, or about $527 per employee.

An additional $1.23 million in back pay, about $414 per person, will go to a pool of just under 3,000 applicants for "software engineering positions not hired." The remaining $1.25 million is reserved for salary adjustments for employees currently working as software engineers based out of Google's offices in California, New York, and Washington state.

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