LinkedIn Settles With U.S. Over Alleged Pay Discrimination

The U.S. Labor Division introduced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement settlement with LinkedIn to resolve allegations of “systemic, gender-based pay discrimination” wherein girls had been paid lower than males in comparable job roles. (AP Photograph/Richard Drew, File)

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The career-networking service LinkedIn has agreed to pay $1.8 million in again wages to a whole bunch of feminine employees to settle a pay discrimination grievance introduced by U.S. labor investigators.

The U.S. Labor Division introduced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement settlement with LinkedIn to resolve allegations of “systemic, gender-based pay discrimination” wherein girls had been paid lower than males in comparable job roles.

The settlement impacts practically 700 girls who labored in engineering, product or advertising roles from 2015 to 2017 on the firm’s workplaces in San Francisco and Sunnyvale, California. It consists of the time earlier than and after Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016.

LinkedIn mentioned in an announcement that “whereas we now have agreed to settle this matter, we don't agree with the federal government’s claims; LinkedIn pays and has paid its workers pretty and equitably when evaluating comparable work.”