Uber Agrees to Pay Software Engineers $10M for Job Bias (1)

Uber Technologies tentatively agreed to pay $10 million and change its compensation and promotion practices to settle claims that it discriminated against approximately 420 software engineers nationwide based on their sex, race, and/or national origin.

The March 26 preliminary settlement would bring an end to two California cases—one in federal court, the other in state court—that accused the ride-hailing giant of hiring female software engineers and engineers of color at lower job levels than their credentials warranted and paying them less than their white and Asian counterparts for the same work. Uber was also accused of providing female ...