A lawsuit filed Friday accused Google of systemic racial bias against black employees, saying the search engine company forces them into lower-level jobs, pays them less and denies them opportunities to advance because of their race. deprives. According to a complaint seeking class-action status, Google maintains a “racially biased corporate culture” that favors white people, where black people comprise only 4.4 percent of employees and about 3 percent of leadership and its technology workforce. .
The plaintiffs, April Curley, also said that the Alphabet Inc. entity subjected blacks to a hostile work environment that often required them to show identification or be questioned by security at their Mountain View, California campus. Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The complaint was filed in federal court in San Jose, California. This comes as the state’s civil rights regulator, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, launched an investigation into Google’s treatment of black women workers and possible discrimination in their workplace. Curley said Google hired him in 2014 to design an outreach program for historically black colleges.
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She said her recruitment proved to be a “marketing ploy”, as supervisors began to discredit her work, projecting her as an “angry” black woman and passing her over for promotion.
Curley said Google fired him in September 2020 when he and his colleagues began working on a list of desired improvements.
Curly’s attorney, Ben Crump, said in a statement, “While Google claims they were looking to increase diversity, they were actually underestimating, underpaying and abusing their black employees. “
Crump is a civil rights lawyer who represented the family of George Floyd after he was killed by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020. Curley’s lawsuit seeks to compensate current and former black employees at Google for compensatory and punitive damages and lost compensation and to restore them to their proper positions and seniority.
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The case is Curley v. Google LLC, US District Court, Northern District of California, No. 22-01735.
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