{"id":992590,"date":"2022-03-19T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=992590"},"modified":"2022-03-19T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T19:58:20","slug":"lawsuit-accuses-google-of-fostering-systemic-bias-against-black-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=992590","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit accuses Google of fostering systemic bias against Black employees"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new lawsuit against Google accuses the company of fostering a “racially biased corporate culture” that offers Black employees lower pay and fewer opportunities to advance than their white counterparts, reports Reuters<\/ins><\/em><\/a>. Filed on Friday with a federal court in San Jose, California, the complaint alleges the company subjected former diversity recruiter April Curley and other current and former Black employees to a hostile work environment.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Google hired Curley to design a program to connect the company with Black colleges<\/ins><\/a>. Shortly afterward, she claims she was subjected to denigrating comments from her managers, who allegedly stereotyped her as an “angry” black woman while passing her over for promotions.<\/p>\n

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“While Google claims that they were looking to increase diversity, they were actually undervaluing, underpaying and mistreating their Black employees,” Curley’s lawyer told Reuters<\/em>. The complaint notes Black people make up only 4.4 percent of employees at Google and approximately 3 percent of its leadership.<\/p>\n

We’ve reached out to Google for comment.<\/p>\n

Curley is not the first person to accuse Google of fostering a work environment hostile to Black employees and other people of color. In the aftermath of Timnit Gebru’s controversial exit<\/ins><\/a> from the company, Alex Hanna, a former employee with the tech giant’s Ethical AI research group, said she decided to leave Google after becoming tired of its structural deficiencies. “In a word, tech has a whiteness problem,” Hanna wrote on Medium<\/ins><\/a> at the time. “Google is not just a tech organization. Google is a white tech organization.”<\/p>\n


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\nSource: Engadget – Lawsuit accuses Google of fostering systemic bias against Black employees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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