Black, Deaf Employee Sues Google, Accuses Tech Giant Of Using Her To Tout Diversity
Jalon Hall, the first black and deaf employee at Google has filed a lawsuit against her employer, accusing the company of discrimination.
Hall, who joined Google as a content moderator in 2020 accused the company of using her to project itself as an inclusive workplace.
Who is Jalon Hall
¡°Google is using me to make them look inclusive for the Deaf community and the overall Disability community,¡± Hall told Wired. ¡°In reality, they need to do better.¡±
Hall who has a master's degree in criminal justice joined Google after a recruiter reached out to her through LinkedIn offering her a job at the search engine giant.
Despite her not having a background in content moderation, Hall soon started working with Wolverine, a new in-house team tasked with moderating YouTube videos.
How Google failed Hall
But things changed soon and according to Hall, Google failed to live up to the promises it had made while hiring her.
Hall was promised a sign language interpreter, at the time of hiring, but she allegedly it was not fulfilled.
She accused Google of excluding her from roundtable discussions and refusing to promote her as a result of ¡°inaccurate evaluation¡± after she worked at the company for three years.
Hostile, racial workplace
Hall further alleged that Google¡¯s management environment was hostile and racially charged.
According to her, a manager at Google¡¯s machine-learning research program called her an ¡°aggressive black deaf woman¡± and advised her to ¡°keep her mouth shut and take a sales role.¡±
Google celebrated Hall on social media
All this while, she said that Google was celebrating her on social media platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram for their diversity at workplace campaign.
¡°I felt a sense of humiliation, recognizing that my career wasn¡¯t progressing,¡± she told Wired.
While Google has not denied the allegations raised by Hall in her December lawsuit, last week, it filed to dismiss the suit, arguing that the claims were brought too late.
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