Older job seekers will receive $ 52,000 each after Google rejects them

Google has settled a clbad action lawsuit based on age-based discrimination, although the tech giant still refuses to be biased against older candidates during his process. # 39; maintenance.

The settlement, worth US $ 11 million ($ 16 million New Zealand), will be shared between more than 200 job seekers who applied to join Google at the age of 40. years, according to a statement. Bloomberg report.

The average payment for the 227 clbad members who accepted the settlement will be $ 35,000 (NZ $ 52,000).

The lawsuit – which was settled Friday in federal court in San Jose, California, according to Bloomberg – was initiated by an employment researcher named Cheryl Daughters, who made several inquiries to Google over the course of the day. 39, a period of seven years.

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Girlkes claimed to have the technical prowess to get a job at Google, but this opportunity was often denied because of her age.

According to the report, Google denied that Daughters met his technical bar. The technology giant also allegedly denied systematic age discrimination against Girlkes or one of the former claimants in the case.

Under the terms of the agreement, Google and the Alphabet parent company will train employees and managers to age discrimination and create a committee to focus on age diversity in his recruitment practices. A Google spokesman Monday said Internal business the company already has policies to combat discrimination, including age discrimination.

Silicon Valley technology companies are often badociated with a younger workforce. In 2016, the median age of Google employees was 30 years old. On Facebook, he was 28.

Each year, Google publishes a report on diversity, which highlights the ethnicity and gender of its workforce and aims to show the company's progress in creating a workplace more diverse over time. This report however does not include statistics on the age of its employees.

A Google spokesman declined to say whether future reports would include age.

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