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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: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday January 06 2017, @09:46AM
We had a black woman try to keep her job (she was getting laid off from customer service and trying for a linux oriented tech job) where I was the tech interviewer. I went easy on her, but wound up eviscerating her in the end, because she also couldn't answer even the most basic questions. "What's Linux?" No? Ooookay, "What's the difference between TCP and UCP?" No? Ooookay... "uhh... tell me what you know about networking. Just, whatever pops into your head."
We dealt almost exclusively with Linux (and one or two Solaris using heathen clients) in software that was very network sensitive, like, tuning to the ms (and for the upper crust, ns) level. She would have been a burden that the organization couldn't have sustained, not to mention with myself as the sole defacto trainer (in addition to doing my actual job), since, you know, the actual training department got laid off. The hiring manger had my back the entire way through it. My point is that you shouldn't feel bad. You're not the asshole here. The assholes were the people who set the poor dude up to fail. You have a tiny ass subset of humanity for which it is your job to guard and keep moving forward. The fact that some other organization lead this one particular individual toward failure is NOT your fault.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday January 06 2017, @09:53AM
I... meant to reply to the OP. Apparently I am not as good at replying to things as I think I am at other things.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!