LinkedIn agrees to pay $1.8m to women over discrimination claims

LinkedIn, the professional networking platform,has reached an agreement with the US department of labour to pay $1.8 million to female employees who the agency said received far less compensation than their male colleagues from 2015-to 17, the department said on Tuesday.

According to a statement released by the agency, LinkedIn denied 686 women equal pay at its San Francisco office and at its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The women worked in engineering, marketing, and product roles.

During a routine evaluation, the agency found that the women in question had been paid “at a statistically significant lower rate” than their male counterparts even after taking into account “legitimate explanatory factors,” according to the conciliation agreement between LinkedIn and the labour department.