A former employee claimed in a lawsuit that the company discriminates against Black people, who are often put into dead-end jobs with low pay and subjected to harassment.
April Curley, who was hired by the technology giant as a University Programs Specialist in its New York office in 2014, said in the complaint that she was fired in 2020 after she called for reform of the barriers and double standards imposed on Black employees.
After the police murder of George Floyd sparked worldwide protests in support of racial justice, the company made a big push to hire more Black employees in 2020. The company is facing a lawsuit by a Black employee who accused it of hiring minority job seekers with rosy promises and then assigning them jobs with lower pay.
Curley filed a complaint Friday in federal court in San Jose, California, saying that her complaint was filed because of the lack of Black representation in the leadership of the company.
She said that it was because of that thatGoogle hires few Black employees and steers those few Black employees into lower-level roles, pays them less, and denies them advancement and leadership roles because of their race.
Black candidates were asked inappropriate questions by hiring managers.
She is seeking damages for discrimination.
A request for comment was not immediately responded to.
According to an annual diversity report, the U.S. workforce is just over 50% White, 42% Asian, 6.4% Latinx, 4.4% Black and 0.8% Native American.
The report said that 8.8% of the hires were employees with the plus designation who identify as multiple races. Black women showed the highest jump in the metric when it came to attrition.
The complaint was reported earlier.
The case is in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
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