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Uber Faces Federal Investigation Over Alleged Gender Discrimination (bbc.com)
According to The Wall Street Journal, Uber is being investigated by U.S. authorities over a complaint about gender discrimination (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is leading the investigation, which began last August but hasn't been previously reported. From the report: EEOC investigators have been interviewing former and current Uber employees as well as seeking documents from Uber officials, these people said. The investigators have been seeking information related to hiring practices, pay disparity and other matters as they relate to gender, one person said. Uber, which hopes to debut on the public markets sometime in the second half of next year, is already is facing at least five other federal investigations by multiple agencies into its pricing practices, accusations of bribery by Uber executives abroad, and its use of software designed to evade local officials tracking its operations, among other matters.
The EEOC, tasked with enforcing federal laws against discrimination, generally responds to confidential complaints filed by workers against employers, and can file suit or seek private arbitration. Of roughly 90,000 complaints filed annually, a fraction result in a settlement or EEOC-led lawsuit. It is unclear whether the EEOC intends to take any action against Uber, which would be one of the agency's most prominent recent cases.
The EEOC, tasked with enforcing federal laws against discrimination, generally responds to confidential complaints filed by workers against employers, and can file suit or seek private arbitration. Of roughly 90,000 complaints filed annually, a fraction result in a settlement or EEOC-led lawsuit. It is unclear whether the EEOC intends to take any action against Uber, which would be one of the agency's most prominent recent cases.
"You will destroy yourself with diversity, or we will fucking destroy you."
Translation: average pay and hiring for women must the same or greater than men no matter what for equality. Otoh If men's pay and hiring is less, that's okay because reasons.
Is anyone else starting to long for open legal discrimination. I am. This is all bullshit money for lawyers and left wing nut jobs.. employers hire who does the job best for the least money... period. If they hire too few women or races of humans theres generally a practical reason for it.. especially today..
That doesn't go balls to the wall with social justice and environmental initiatives and PR. Maybe they can start up a girls only coding scholarship or hire more transgenders and loudly publicize it. That way they don't stick out as much as an inviting target or black sheep among all the other super leftwing sv corporations.
What he's obviously talking about are the half-truths and general dishonesty in the gender pay parity/disparity debate.
If you're not familiar with it or need a refresher, the typical "women only earn x cents on a man's dollar" figures don't control for things like hours worked (as per contract and overtime), years of experience education, if they're working full or part time, specialization, night shift and work during other irregular hours, vacation time, or willingness and ability to bargain for salary. When you start factoring in for those things the myth of the gender pay gap doesn't just die a death by a thousand cuts, it gets properly stabbed by many of the factors that I mentioned (just factoring in for part time work alone get us from 77 to 83 cents-on-the-dollar) and I wasn't even close to thorough in listing factors that cause a skew in improperly done analysis'.
Because of how badly inaccurate these comparisons tend to get, a parity or close-to-parity situation is actually a case of higher pay for the same work when examined with actual rigor.
"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."