Google, Inc. ("Google") is the latest high profile
employer in an onslaught of class actions by female employees
alleging systemic discrimination in pay against women.
Coupled with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Program's ("OFCCP") investigation into Google's
pay practices and the recent media firestorm over a memo by a
disgruntled male (now former) employee, this class action lawsuit
has brought Google's compensation practices into the
spotlight.
On September 14, 2017, three former Google employees filed a class action
lawsuit alleging violations of the California Equal Pay Act,
among other state laws, on behalf of themselves and all other
similarly situated current and former female Google employees in
California. Relying in part on OFCCP's probe into
Google's pay practices and statistical regression analysis of
compensation data for approximately 21,000 employees, the
plaintiffs point to alleged widespread compensation disparities
against women. In
