Critical Mass: Google Faces Pay Equity Battle That Could Provide 'Blueprint' for Change. Plus, First Blood for Plaintiffs in Filter Defect Trial
A class action over gender pay equity at Google has cleared a hurdle, and the ruling could reverberate throughout Silicon Valley and the tech world as a road map for suits targeting pay inequality in major companies.
April 03, 2018 at 02:00 PM
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Welcome to Critical Mass, Law.com's briefing on class actions and mass torts. I'm Max Mitchell in Philadelphia, filling in for my colleague Amanda Bronstad. Google received some bad news recently as a California judge determined that a pay-equity class action can move forward against the tech giant. And the first case to go to trial over allegedly defective Bard IVC blood filters ended with a $4 million verdict for the plaintiffs in Arizona.
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