Uber is paying $1.9 million (£1.5 million) to 56 current and former employees in order to settle sexual harassment claims.
The victims of sexual harassment will receive about $34,000 each with an additional $11,000 each as part of a class action involving 485 people who claimed discrimination.
The payouts are part of the $10 million settlement that was agreed in March. There will be a final hearing on 6 November to approve the settlement.
The case is being led by two Latina engineers who said that they were paid less than their white, Asian and male colleagues.
They filed their legal claim against the company in October 2017, after they claimed that they suffered harassment based on their gender and ethnicity.
Jahan Sagafi, a lawyer who represented the Uber employees, said his legal firm was “happy that the settlement approval process is progressing as planned”.
“So [once it is approved] we can pay class members for these discrimination and harassment claims and begin the three-year effort to monitor Uber’s implementation of the HR improvements,” he said.
Uber’s chief executive Travis Kalanick stepped down in June 2017. The former chief executive faced allegations of widespread sexual harassment and gender discrimination at the company.
Kalanick stepped down a 3,000-word blog post by Susan Fowler, a former engineer at the company, who described the toxic working culture in the Silicon Valley office.
The ride-hailing company has faced endless controversy this year, facing a ban in London.
TfL rejected the company’s application to renew its licence in June due to a “lack of corporate responsibility”.
Tom Elvidge, the general manager of Uber in the UK, told the court: “I agree that Uber London Limited (ULL) and Uber generally was undergoing a period of significant change and, in light of what was available to TfL, given the mistakes that ULL made, I absolutely accept that decision in September.”