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0 pointsthaumasiotes5y ago0 comments

> I think the important takeaway is that https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-google-discriminat... ("Google denies charges, says there is no gender pay gap") was a lie.

Huh? They tell you the amounts. By these back pay numbers, there definitely was no gender pay gap. And then...

> And that there probably should be a lot of punitive damages here in addition to "back pay".

Why? The putative victims suffered a barely measurable injury. Why would that indicate huge punitive damages?

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ocdtrekkie5y ago

"$1,232,000 in back pay and interest to 1,757 female and 1,219 Asian applicants for software engineering positions not hired."

How is "not hired" not a measurable injury? Google screwed their careers. And presumably these employees would be making six figure salaries... each. There's no way that the tiny amount of "back pay" here actually covers that or even close to it.

username905y ago

You have to compare the pay with what they got instead. Most of them almost surely got hired at equivalent companies if they managed to clear the Google interviews.

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