Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department (theguardian.com)

The U.S. Department of Labor is accusing Google of discriminating against its female employees and violating federal employment laws with its salaries for women. "We found systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce," Janette Wipper, a Department of Labor regional director, testified in court in San Francisco on Friday. The Guardian reports: Google strongly denied the accusations of inequities, claiming it did not have a gender pay gap. The allegations emerged at a hearing in federal court as part of a lawsuit the DoL filed against Google in January, seeking to compel the company to provide salary data and documents to the government. Google is a federal contractor, which means it is required to allow the DoL to inspect and copy records and information about its its compliance with equal opportunity laws. Last year, the department's office of federal contract compliance programs requested job and salary history for Google employees, along with names and contact information, as part of the compliance review. Google, however, repeatedly refused to hand over the data, which was a violation of its contractual obligations with the federal government, according to the DoL's lawsuit. Labor officials detailed the government's discrimination claims against Google at the Friday hearing while making the case for why the company should be forced to comply with the DoL's requests for documents. Wipper said the department found pay disparities in a 2015 snapshot of salaries and said officials needed earlier compensation data to evaluate the root of the problem and needed to be able to confidentially interview employees.

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There must be a mistake ...

[drnb]

There must be a mistake because google is all about not being evil. Its right their in their corporate motto. That is how we know we can trust them with everything, the motto and the free stuff.

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[PopeRatzo]

Women are worse at salary negotiation than men in general which stems from their built in conflict avoidance mechanism.

And black people can't play hockey because they're missing a bone in their feet. You can look it up.

Wonderful means of attacking opposition

[mi]

Whether Google really is violating the law, the prosecution itself is a convenient means of suppressing opposition. Google was "with her" all the way. Could this be a payback from the Trump's Administration?

Or, the other way around, has the previous Administration sat on it because Google was all for the Democratics? Worse, maybe, Google's unprecedented cooperation was due to the subtle blackmail in the first place?

Whatever the answers to these questions, I'd rather they not be asked at all — there should be no thoughtcrimes for the government to prosecute. At all.

Discrimination may be stupid and unethical, but it should not be illegal.

The SJWs have started eating their own.

[zerofoo]

Google has had a history of leaning left - years ago they were accused of filtering gun related searches.

I'm enjoying a bit of schadenfreude here watching lefties attack their own.