Google Sued by Black Ex-Employee Over ‘Racially Biased’ Culture

  • Worker says she lost job after protesting ‘double standard’
  • Company pushed hard to hire more Black people starting in 2020
Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google discriminates against Black people, who are “pigeon-holed into dead-end jobs” with low pay and subjected to harassment, a former employee claimed in a lawsuit.

April Curley, who was hired by the technology giant as a University Programs Specialist in its New York office in 2014, said in the complaint that she was fired in 2020 after she “vocally opposed and called for reform of the barriers and double standards Google imposed on Black employees and applicants.” Curley is Black.