. >> ellis versus google, inc. named for former employee. told paid less than male counterpart with when she has more experience. >> promotion denied. started behind and stayed behind. >> two other women named as plaintiffs but hopes will become a class action benefitting tens of thousands of female google employees, deserve back pay for wages they should have earned and then there's bigger picture. >> to change google's practices and policies, so going forward women get equal pay for substantially equal work. >> suit follows a federal labor investigation. finding systemic pay discrimination among the employees at headquarters. said in statement company will review the lawsuit but disagrees with the central allegations. goes on to say that job levels and promotions determined through rigorous hiring and promotion committees and pass multiple levels of review, including checks for gender bias. abc7 news. >>> you saw it on abc7, "truth and lies: the murder of laci peterson" and the i-team is digging into the case 15 years after it sparked worl

. >> ellis versus google, inc. named for former employee.id less than male counterpart with when she has more experience. >> promotion denied. started behind and stayed behind. >> two other women named as plaintiffs but hopes will become a class action benefitting tens of thousands of female google employees, deserve back pay for wages they should have earned and then there's bigger picture. >> to change google's practices and policies, so going forward women get equal pay for substantially equal work. >> suit follows a federal labor investigation. finding systemic pay discrimination among the employees at headquarters. said in statement company will review the lawsuit but disagrees with the central allegations. goes on to say that job levels and promotions determined through rigorous hiring and promotion committees and pass multiple levels of review, including checks for gender bias. abc7 news. >>> you saw it on abc7, "truth and lies: the murder of laci peterson" and the i-team is digging into the case 15 years after it sparked worldwide at

ellis versus google is named for former google employee kelly ellis. her attorney told abc 7 news she was being paid less than a male counterpart though she had more experience. >> she applied for promotion and the promotion request was denied. she was told you haven't been here long enough to be promoted. so she started behind and she stayed behind. >> reporter: two other women are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit. their attorney james finberg, is asking for back pay and hopes it will be a class-action suit benefiting tens of thousands of female employees. google says job levels and promotions are determined through rigorous hiring and promotion committees and must pass multiple levels of review including checks to make sure there's no gender bias. google says it will review the lawsuit in detail. matt keller, abc 7 news. >> matt, thank you. >>> developing news out of sonoma county where a woman is filing suit against a company for poor working conditions and sexual harassment. the company is called sofi, a financial startup, it specializeness stude

ellis versus google, her attorney told abc 7 news she was being paid less than a male counterpart even though she had more experience. two other women are named as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. their attorney is asking for back pay. he hopes it will be a class-action suit benefiting tens of millions of google employees. >> to change google's policies and practices so that going forward women get equal pay for. >> reporter: a google spokesperson said in a statement job levels and promotions are determined through rigorous hiring and must pass levels of review including checks to make sure there's no gender bias in these decisions. google says it will review the lawsuit in detail. matt keller, abc 7 news. >> thank you, matt. lawyers for the man convicted of killing a morgan hill teen reportedly want the judge kicked off the case before sentencing. according to our media partner "the mercury news" defense attorneys for torres are calling for a new trial. they claim the judge failed to disclose a conflict of interest. judge zeker once represented the lead investigator. according to multiple