{"id":829177,"date":"2024-07-04T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=829177"},"modified":"2024-07-04T10:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T04:37:13","slug":"microsoft-settles-california-probe-over-worker-leave-for-14-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/04\/microsoft-settles-california-probe-over-worker-leave-for-14-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft settles California probe over worker leave for $14 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp has agreed to pay $14 million to settle a California agency&#8217;s claims that it illegally penalized workers who took medical or family-care leave, the agency said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The California Civil Rights Department in filings in state court accused the tech giant of retaliating against its California-based employees who used parental, disability, pregnancy and family-care leave since 2017 by denying them raises, promotions and stock awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp has agreed to pay $14 million to settle a California agency&#8217;s claims that it illegally penalized workers who took medical or family-care leave, the agency said on Wednesday. The California Civil Rights Department in filings in state court accused the tech giant of retaliating against its California-based employees who used parental, disability, pregnancy and family-care leave since 2017 by denying them raises, promotions and stock awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-829177","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\/829177","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}