Gender pay discrimination – LinkedIn will pay $1.8 million to female employees!
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The U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement agreement with LinkedIn to resolve allegations of “systemic, gender-based wage discrimination” in which women were paid less than men in comparable professional roles.
Career networking service LinkedIn has agreed to pay $1.8 million in back wages to hundreds of female workers to settle a pay discrimination complaint filed by job searchers in the US.
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The settlement affects nearly 700 women who worked in engineering, product or marketing roles from 2015 to 2017 at the company's offices in San Francisco and Sunnyvale , California . It includes the years before and after Microsoft's $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016.
The settlement includes about $1.75 million in back pay and more than $50,000 in interest to be paid to the women, according to the settlement agreement.
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The settlement agreement says LinkedIn has denied pay discrimination and argued that its statistical models did not detect pay differences. The government said its own analysis found significant pay differences even after controlling for “legitimate explanatory factors .” The agency said the case was triggered by a routine review by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. Federal laws prohibit discriminatory practices by companies that contract with the federal government.
Source of information: thehindu.com
