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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.
I see, you think it is 'evil' what Google is doing. I think it is evil what the government is doing, attacking businesses on any of it at all.
The collectivists need to leave the productive people alone or the productive people will leave the collectivists alone.
It is insane that businesses in USA even dare to hire any of the protected classes of people. Of-course if Google didn't have any women working there they would also face lawsuits. The only way for Google in this case to avoid lawsuits would have been to hire women and clearly to overpay them. Clearly to overpay them because all these women working for Google today are being paid what they are worth to the company and what the women accepted as the pay and the US labour dep't came after Google anyway.
AFAIC it is insane to hire anybody in the USA or most of the Western world, but to hire the protected class of people is suicide. You have to be a huge company to stand against the USA government in court the way MS or IBM did, small businesses don't stand a chance.
Automation and outsourcing is the only solution to this nonsense.
You can't handle the truth.