By Robert Burnson | Bloomberg
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged it paid girls lower than their male counterparts.
The settlement, much less attorneys’ charges and bills, will probably be awarded to 1,735 girls who labored on the firm’s California places of work since 2015, the ladies’s attorneys mentioned in a submitting in San Jose state courtroom. Awards to every girl vary from $500 to $17,000, relying on how a lot every girl was allegedly underpaid.
An HPE spokesman declined to touch upon the submitting. Throughout 4 years of litigation, the corporate has denied underpaying its employees.
The events started settlement talks final January after HPE misplaced a dismissal of the declare on attraction, in line with the submitting.
Legal professionals for the ladies described the settlement as “excellent” and mentioned it represented a 62% restoration of the quantity the ladies had been underpaid. “As well as, this settlement exposes the gender pay hole, difficult tech corporations to evaluation their pay insurance policies and implement pay fairness protections,” they wrote.
The attorneys will accumulate as a lot as one-third of the overall settlement, or $2.8 million.
The case is Ross v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Firm, 18CV337830, Superior Courtroom of California, Santa Clara County (San Jose).
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