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Department of Labor Sues Google Over Compensation Data (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNNMoney: The Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday to get the Internet company to turn over compensation data on its employees. The data request is part of a routine audit into Google's equal opportunity hiring practices, which is required because of the company's role as a federal contractor. Google provides cloud computing services to various federal agencies and the military. Google is obligated to let the government access records that show its hiring doesn't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender and more. According to the lawsuit, Google has repeatedly refused to provide names, contact information, job history and salary history details that the government has requested for its employees. The Labor Department is now requesting that a judge order all of Google's federal contracts canceled unless it complies with the data request. "Despite many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily, Google has refused to do so," Thomas M. Dowd, acting director for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, said in a statement. "We filed this lawsuit so we can obtain the information we need to complete our evaluation."
Remember when the Obama administration summoned the CEOs of the big 5 banks to Washington and they didn't show up? That must've stung, no? Well, now Google's trying the same thing with big gubbermint. Can't wait to see what happens. I can smell the testosterone from the other side of the border!
How big an ego do you need to have to completely ignore the law? They knew about this when they became a federal contractor, if they don't want to provide this... can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Did Google think they are now above the law? Perhaps they were, had Clinton won the election.
The alternate explanation is complete gross incompetence in Google's HR department, they did not even have the information even if they wanted. But would you believe that from the largest surveillance and data analysis company in the world?
I think it is utterly ridiculous for the government to force companies to keep track of race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender identity. That is personal information that is neither the employer's business nor the federal government's.
People should either refuse to answer such questions or simply make up answers.
Not even close. Being British, French, Spanish, or South African tells you little about the US notion of "race" or "ethnicity".
(And the fact that the US government even has official definitions of racial categories is an outrage.)
The Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday to get the Internet company to turn over compensation data on its employees. [...] Google is obligated to let the government access records that show its hiring doesn't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender and more.
And how exactly does providing data on employees prove that they do not discriminate against applicants? Oh, that's right, it isn't about equality of opportunity, it's about equality of results. I forgot.
" These requests include thousands of employeesâ(TM) private contact information which we safeguard rigorously"
Doesn't fucking matter. For tax purposes, these things MUST be known. ZERO EXCUSE.
Umm, the IRS is not requesting the data. This isn't about taxes, it's about hiring quotas and affirmative-action compliance. The IRS has all the employees' contact info necessary for tax purposes.
This sounds more like a politically-correct witch hunt on the part of the government. Maybe I'm wrong, I await proof that contradicts it.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
I do federal contracting. This is a standard, non-negotiable clause. If Google wanted the money, they agreed to the clause. I'm glad you've had bad luck with the legal team and CC0 licenses, but this had to do with federal contracts worth billions. Money speaks.
Hard to do affirmative action without defining race.
> show its hiring doesn't discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender and more.
IQ is dependent on the genetics of various human races. Therefore Google needs to discriminate baseed on genes, just to avoid hiring the dumb.
Ashkenazi Jew, hindi = highest IQ, often genius level
Yellow Asians, WASP = high IQ, highly motivated
mediterranan whites, e.g. italians = average IQ further hurt by laziness
blacks = low IQ (70 or less), but often high motivation (US military holds them higher than hispanics)
hispanics and arabs = low IQ but even lower motivation (Army and Marines detest them as useless)
Going after the company is not an application of that idea, an application of Roman decimation or any equivalent concept of punishing someone pour encourager les autres. You want to make sphincters pucker here? Real simple. Hold the executive(s) responsible personally. Pierce the corporate veil and go after them directly for ordering non-compliance.
New data reveals that 86% of the total H1B visas issued in 2014 for technology firms was used to hire IT professionals from India. The data accessed by Computerworld through Right of Information Act, reveals that a lion share of visas issued for computer jobs are claimed by Indians.
So obviously there is categorical information for national origin and the H1B programs need more diversity...
If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer.— Lou Dobbs, CNN financial correspondent and author of Exporting America (September 2004)
2 people with similar resume apply for a job. Which do you higher, the one who interveiwed beter? No. Answer, the brown one with a vagina, because government says you have to.