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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Google discriminates against black people, who are \u201cpigeon-holed into dead-end jobs\u201d with low pay and subjected to harassment, a former employee claimed in a lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cvocally opposed and called for reform of the barriers and double standards Google imposed on black employees and applicants.
\nGoogle, which has shown slow progress in diversifying its workforce in recent years, made a big push to hire more black employees in 2020, after the police murder of George Floyd sparked worldwide protests in support of racial justice.<\/p>\n

The company is also facing a suit by another black employee who accused it in 2017 of hiring minority job seekers with rosy promises and then assigning them jobs with lower pay.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoogle\u2019s centralised leadership, which is nearly devoid of black representation, holds biased and stereotypical views about the abilities and potential of black professionals,\u201d Curley said in her complaint, filed Friday in federal court in San Jose, California.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why \u201cGoogle 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,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Hiring managers viewed black candidates as not \u201cGoogly\u201d enough and interviewers \u201chazed\u201d black candidates and asked them \u201clevel-inappropriate questions\u201d to hurt their hiring prospects, Curley said. She is seeking damages for discriminatory employment practices and policies. Google didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s US workforce is just more than 50% White, 42% Asian, 6.4% Latinx, 4.4% Black and 0.8% Native American \u2013 a slight rise in figures reported in 2020, according to an annual diversity report the company released last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack+\u201d employees, with the plus designation reflecting those who identify as multiple races, made up 8.8% of Google\u2019s US hires, compared with 5.5% the previous year, the report said. Attrition was on the rise among racial minority groups, with black women showing the highest jump in the metric, according to the report.<\/p>\n

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