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Former Female Oracle Employees Sue Company For Alleged Pay Discrimination (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the class-action dept.

Three female, former Oracle employees are suing Oracle for allegedly paying women less than men in similar jobs. Rong Jewett, Sophy Wang and Xian Murray filed a lawsuit August 28, seeking a class-action status to represent all other women who have worked at the company. TechCrunch reports: The lawsuit, first reported by The Information, alleges that Oracle discriminated against women by "systematically paying them lower wage rates than Oracle pays to male employees performing substantially equal or similar work under similar working conditions," the filing states. The time period the lawsuit references is four years prior to the filing and through the date of the trial in California. Referencing how the U.S. Department of Labor sued Oracle in January based on its compliance review that found "systemic discrimination against women" and "gross disparities in pay," the lawsuit states Oracle had known or should have known about the pay disparity between its male and female employees. The plaintiffs are seeking wages due, interest and liquidated damages plus interest. They also want Oracle to guarantee they won't pay women less than men for similar work in the future.

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  1. Being Black, White, X, Y.... by bluelip · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...it does not matter. Put in the hard work. Keep your head down and solve problems. If you're not getting what you deserve, move elsewhere. Your skills are obviously, at least in your mind, in great demand so landing a better job will be easy.

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    1. Re:Being Black, White, X, Y.... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No one should have to leave their job because their employer is institutionally biased against them. Especially when there is a good chance that they new employer will be the same, and it's hard to tell if they will be because everyone claims to meet their legal obligation to be fair.

      "Just leave town" is not an answer, it's divisive and unfair.

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    2. Re:Being Black, White, X, Y.... by hey! · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The truth is -- the truth is complicated. It is *true* that the ability to take your labor other places is a help in facing discrimination, but it is *also* true that some discriminatory attitudes are so widespread that your options for doing so may be limited.

      This is easy to understand when it's your own ox being gored; somewhat less so when other people are the one affected. Think of your own jobs; has management by in large been competent and rational? If so, your experience is unusual. If not, chances are you'll experience similar management if you change jobs. The most commonplace human level of achievement in any endeavor is mediocrity.

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  2. O.R.A.C.L.E. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Come on girl, you knew what you where signing on for, ORACLE is as advertised,

    One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison

  3. Well well, here we are in the current year... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the time for the American Anti-SJWs to shine. Christina Hoff-Summers, her proxies like Ben Shapiro and Milo and her elders like Tomas Sowell, all claim that there is no discrimination against women and doing the the math right shows it.

    There are, of course, other considerations and implications from this lawsuit. The idea that employee A has to get what employee B gets, or even in the ball-park of what B gets is a basic communist, ideological, evil. AFAIK americans never stay at their jobs if they find a better paying spot. So claiming that it is a "class" thing will be hard to prove. Another implication is the basic (and peculiar) american ideological concept called "A deal is a deal". If you freely sign a contract, thus striking a deal, going back and asking for more through courts is trying to chip away at the original concept. Your whole country is based on the idea that a deal is a deal. Sure damage can be done, proven and compensated for by courts but chip enough foundation away and it's pretty much legal chaos.

    This will be very entertaining, Best of luck to all involved :-)

  4. class action is a farce by Orgasmatron · · Score: 4, Funny

    The lawyers are going to clear a quarter billion, and each of the employees is going to get a coupon for 25% off their next database.

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  5. Re:Considering how hard women are to find... by Trondheim · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't a hiring freeze on men patently illegal?

  6. Ugh. Hideous headline by Rick+Zeman · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Former Female Oracle Employees Sue Company"

    Former Female? What were they before? Perhaps you might mean "Female Former Oracle Employees Sue Company."