Tech giant Google has agreed to pay $118 million to settle a case bought by four former female employees who alleged the company paid its female workers less than men for substantially similar work.
The lawsuit was originally filed in September 2017 and a settlement was reached on June 10, according to a press release from the plaintiffs’ law firms.
Plaintiffs were named as Kelly Ellis, a software engineer who worked at Google’s Mountain View office for approximately four years; Holly Pease, who had held numerous roles at Googles Mountain View and Sunnyvale offices for approximately 10.5 years; Kelli Wisuri, who worked for Google for approximately 2.5 years in its Mountain View office, as an enterprise operations coordinator among other roles; and Heidi Lamar, who had been employed as a preschool teacher and infant/toddler teacher at Google’s Children Center in Palo Alto for approximately four years….