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The U.S. Department of Labor has just sued Google in an attempt to get the Mountain View tech giant to cough up compensation data for an audit of its compliance with federal labor laws.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs had in September asked Google to submit particular information, according to a news release Jan. 4 from the labor department.
"As a federal contractor, Google must agree to permit the federal government to inspect and copy records and information relevant to its compliance with the equal employment laws," the labor department said.
"Despite many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily, Google has refused to do so. We filed this lawsuit so we can obtain the information we need to complete our evaluation."
Source: Bay Area News Group
https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/newsroom/newsreleases/OFCCP20162406_0.pdf
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @04:57AM
If Google does not abide by their "federal contractor" obligations, just ban them immediately from being a federal contractor until they comply.
The collateral damage on that would be enormous. What are you going to do about all the contracts that are currently in place? Just halt all work?
And even if you just block all new contracts, that's still going to be a major problem because lots of contracts are yearly as the US budget is yearly. But 99.9% of the time they get funded as ongoing work. So are you going to let those just expire? What about the work they were doing? Its not like a brand new company can just come in and pick up where the last one left off without even doing a technical hand-off. You'd basically be throwing away all the previous work.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 07 2017, @12:33AM
Ah, yes. The old "too big to fail" excuse.