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Labor Department Sues Oracle For Paying White Men More (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from USA Today: Oracle is being sued by the Labor Department for paying white men more than their counterparts and for favoring Asian workers when recruiting and hiring for technical roles. The administrative lawsuit is the latest from the Labor Department to take aim at the human resources practices of major technology companies. The Labor Department warned the lawsuit could cost Oracle hundreds of millions in federal contracts. Oracle makes software and hardware used by the federal government. "The complaint is politically motivated, based on false allegations, and wholly without merit," Oracle spokesman Deborah Hellinger said in a statement. "Oracle values diversity and inclusion, and is a responsible equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Our hiring and pay decisions are non-discriminatory and made based on legitimate business factors including experience and merit." The lawsuit is the result of an Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs review of Oracle's equal employment opportunity practices, the Labor Department said. According to the lawsuit, Oracle America paid white male workers more, leading to pay discrimination against women, African American and Asian employees. The Labor Department also accused Oracle of favoring Asians for product development and other technical roles, resulting in discrimination against non-Asian applicants. Oracle refused to comply with the Labor Department's investigation, which began in 2014, such as refusing to provide compensation data for all employees, complete hiring data for certain business lines and employee complaints of discrimination, according to the federal agency.
There's no contradiction in the two statements. The few white males they do hire are being given higher pay, but the majority of the jobs are going to lower-paid Asian workers.
It seems they want to hire more Asians, BUT pay them less, for whatever reason or perception.
Table-ized A.I.
And that's where the government takes issue. Workers of equal skill should get paid roughly the same wages. It's why the government has such arcane employment ranks - your current rank is based on your skill, and within that rank, there's a guideline to pay ranges. So if you're a software developer 3, there may be a +/- $3000/year variance - a slightly weaker SD3 may get less than the average, a slightly stronger one more. If you aren't skilled enough to make it to the higher level, you can move within the range. But once you get promoted, your pay jumps to within the new range.
That's how they judge equality. They recognize people have different skills and they group them so the group roughly has the same wage. If you're a good negotiator, maybe you get a couple thousand dollars more. Either way, it's a small variation.
Even if all you do is hire the best of the best, they slot somewhere in the scale, and thus get paid roughly the same.
The whole 'negotiate your salary" thing is a scam by managers who know employees generally are powerless and thus weaker in negotiations from the get-go. It's the same as why everyone says to not tell anyone what you're paid - again, a scam to lower wages. (Everyone's afraid they're the ones who are overpaid, while in reality, open wages tends to bring wages up as people at the lower end start asking questions
It's not a foolproof system. It cannot identify that someone is say, a SD3 when they really are ranked lower, and are SD3 just because some manager promoted them because they were white. Though such skill imbalances tend to make themselves well known rather quickly.
[did I fit in all the alt-right cliches? if I missed any, let me know and I'll try again.]
Only in showing that like most people in the left who subscribe to the PCness, claims of anti-hate speech, bigotry and so on. That you're perfectly fine in using it against anyone who doesn't follow your ideology.
Haven't quite figured it out yet have you?
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Here's something at the department of labor that directly contradicts what you just said.
https://blog.dol.gov/2013/06/0...
now i know that the fact that this is on the actualy DoL website is a problem for you, you didn't have it foxsplained to you on oreally or something. i'll wait for you to tell me how they're lying, i'm not actually reading it correctly , blah blah blah.
yeah- so the thing that gets me about you right wing nut jobs is how you so very consistently flat out lie.
and you do it because it works really well.
especially on this site.
and always with the leftist religion thing. is that some new libertarian right wing meme that i missed ?
Absolute statements are never true