{"id":1007392,"date":"2026-05-11T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007392"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:25:23","slug":"google-settles-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-for-50-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/11\/google-settles-racial-discrimination-lawsuit-for-50-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Google settles racial discrimination lawsuit for $50 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has reached a settlement with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>April Curley, a former Google employee, had sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a &#8220;pattern and practice&#8221; of unfair treatment for its Black workers. The suit claimed the company steered them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjected them to a hostile work environment if they speak out. Other former Google workers also joined the suit, which later received class action status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has reached a settlement with Black employees who alleged systemic racial disparities in hiring, pay, and advancement in a lawsuit filed in 2022. April Curley, a former Google employee, had sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a &#8220;pattern and practice&#8221; of unfair treatment for its Black workers. The suit claimed the company steered them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjected them to a hostile work environment if they speak out. Other former Google workers also joined the suit, which later received class action status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007410,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007392\/revisions\/1007410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}