EEOC Investigating Ageism At Google

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has launched an investigation into accusations of age discrimination at Google, a charge the search engine giant denies. A court filing from a plaintiff in the suit accuses Google of stonewalling the investigation. “The EEOC has received multiple complaints of age discrimination by Google, and is currently conducting an extensive investigation into Google’s employment policies and practices,” said plaintiff Cheryl Fillekes, a system engineer who interviewed with Google at age 47 but was never hired, in a filing last week. “The magic word ‘diversity’ doesn’t seem to apply to age in Silicon Valley,” UC Davis computer science professor Norman Matfloff, who studies age discrimination in tech, told the San Jose Mercury News. “Literally, the bottom line is money. The older people are just considered too expensive.”