A gender-based pay discrimination lawsuit filed by four female employees against Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. in 2017 is finally moving forward, affecting approximately 11,000 former and current female Google employees. The lawsuit alleges that Google paid women on average $1,894 less per year in base salary, bonus, and stock than their male counterparts working in similar positions annually in violation of California’s Equal Pay Act...
Recently, 33 students came together via the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP) to file a class action lawsuit against the Department of Education (DOE) for failing to take action to denounce and prevent discrimination of LGBTQ+ students, particularly in universities that receive government funding.
This lawsuit claims the DOE is required to act when students report discriminiation based on LGBTQ+ matters.
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Interracial married couple of 30 years, Verdell and Julie Franklin recently filed a housing discrimination lawsuit against Livingstone County real estate agents and the firms they worked for.
After making an initial offer on their dream lake house situated in Michigan near friends, a realtor allegedly engaged in discriminatory behavior in violation of the Fair Housing Act by intentionally dissuading them from finalizing the offer. The same offer...
Western Digital Corporation and Technologies recently settled a class action lawsuit involving nearly 2,000 female employees over allegations of unequal pay, promotions, and opportunities based on gender bias.
This disk drive manufacturer and data storage company faced official allegations of sex discrimination against female employees in 2016 when plaintiff Yung-Hui Chen filed a notice with the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency...
Pinterest settled a lawsuit with their former Chief Operating Officer (COO) Francoise Brougher for $22.5 million after she brought allegations of gender discrimination, wrongful termination, and employer retaliation against the company.
Brougher joined Pinterest in March of 2018 and worked there until her termination in April of 2020.
Brougher was no stranger to the pressures of Silicon Valley. As a former executive at Square Inc. and Alphabet...
Popular ride-hailing company Uber is facing a class action race discrimination lawsuit regarding their “star rating system”.
The “star rating system” is used to evaluate drivers on a scale from one to five after each ride. This review system determines whether or not a driver should be “deactivated” or terminated. However, the complaint points out that because customers may be racially biased, non-white drivers receive a higher...