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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.
the whole thing is a lie. The reality is asian families in the USA have a far higher income than many white men.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Also female engineers employed by IT companies now get 117% of the income of your average male employee. Why you may ask, well because female's make different life choices to males leading to fewer female engineers even though 60% of university graduates in the USA are female. So what companies do to make themselves look better is pay the few female graduate engineers they can hire a wage that is higher than a male graduate. Where is all starts to fall apart is because of the life choices problem for female employees. Males generally work long hours and will spend more time at work due to the fact they generally don't get pregnant nor have a preference of putting family before work. Climbing the greasy pole takes time, the more time you spend climbing it the higher up you go. If you stop climbing the greasy pole to have kids or go home early to see the kids then your fellow workers are not exactly going to stop climbing the pole just because you have left the building. So when these women come back to work they find themselves on a lower income than their fellow workers who started climbing the greasy pole the same time they did.