MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Accusations that Google pays women less than men have resurfaced in a new version of a lawsuit, which now makes specific claims that affected female employees include engineers, program managers, salespeople and at least one preschool teacher.
A judge dismissed an earlier version of the suit — which seeks class-action status — but invited the plaintiffs to submit a new version describing the purported affected class more specifically.
Plaintiffs Kelly Ellis, Holly Pease, Kelli Wisuri and Heidi Lamar claim that Google discriminates against women and breaks California law by slotting women into lower salary levels than men, giving women lower-paying jobs, promoting women more slowly and generally paying female employees less than men for similar work.
Lamar, a former preschool teacher at Google, was not named in the original complaint but was added to the amended version, which was filed Wednesday in California Superior Court in San Francisco.