Google agreed to pay $50 million to settle hostile and discriminatory workplace claims by 4,000 Black employees who claimed in a putative class action the company’s culture was biased against current employees and prospective hires.
The company’s attorneys from Paul Hastings LLP denied Google did anything wrong, according to the May 8 settlement agreement and past court filings. They said no court had found it to be at fault and no class had been certified, but that the se…