Google settles ‘age-discrimination’ class-action lawsuit with more than 200 US workers for US$11mil

Google has settled for US$11mil (RM45.26mil) a long-running class-action lawsuit claiming that it discriminated against hundreds of older workers by failing to hire them because of their age. 

The workers argued in their lawsuit that between 2007 and 2013, Google’s workforce grew to nearly 30,000 people and that the median age of its workers as of 2013 was 29, compared to a median age of 41 for US employees in computer and math fields. They claimed Google, through “reckless indifference” or “intentional discrimination”, denied equal hiring, employment and compensation opportunities to people 40 and older.