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Uber Faces Engineers' Lawsuit Alleging Gender, Race Bias (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Uber was sued by three Latina engineers who claim the company pays women and people of color less than their peers and doesn't promote them as frequently as males, whites and Asians. The three women from the ride-hailing company, one of whom still works there, accused Uber of violating California's Equal Pay Act in a complaint filed Tuesday in San Francisco state court on behalf of all engineers similarly held back. The women filed the complaint under a state statute that gives employees the right to step into the shoes of the state labor secretary to bring enforcement actions. That law also may give them a way around a provision in Uber's contracts requiring workplace disputes to go through one-on-one arbitration instead of as group actions in court. "Female employees and employees of color are systematically undervalued compared to their male and white or Asian American peers because female employees and employees of color receive, on average, lower rankings despite equal or better performance," according to the complaint against Uber. In July, Uber said that it adjusted salaries to ensure equity in pay for women and minorities.
There are two sides to this coin.
In Austin, TX, the Fire Department was sued by the Obama Administration for racial discrimination. Why? Because minorities were failing entrance examines in far greater numbers than whites.
Was the examine racist? Not on its face. Questions included math, some chemistry, first aid, and other questions completely relevant to being a firefighter. But, the doctrine of "disparate impact" (a hugely inappropriate doctrine) says that the examine was, in fact, racist due solely to the passing rates of various demographic groups. This, despite that fact that there were some minority applicants who aced the examine.
So we have a situation where an unequal outcome is the result of an actual deficit of knowledge, which happen to be concentrated in some groups.
Who knows if these minorities are actually under performing or not, but it wouldn't really matter because if most of them are, then the Disparate Impact rules takes affect.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Facts don't have a racial bias.
And it's far easier to dumb down your test than it is to fight the justice department.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.