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Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department

posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 10 2017, @07:04PM   
from the the-doll-house dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Google has discriminated against its female employees, according to the US Department of Labor (DoL), which said it had evidence of "systemic compensation disparities".

As part of an ongoing DoL investigation, the government has collected information that suggests the internet search giant is violating federal employment laws with its salaries for women, agency officials said.

"We found systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce," Janette Wipper, a DoL regional director, testified in court in San Francisco on Friday.

Reached for comment Friday afternoon, Janet Herold, regional solicitor for the DoL, said: "The investigation is not complete, but at this point the department has received compelling evidence of very significant discrimination against women in the most common positions at Google headquarters."

Herold added: "The government's analysis at this point indicates that discrimination against women in Google is quite extreme, even in this industry."

Google strongly denied the accusations of inequities, claiming it did not have a gender pay gap.

Source: The Guardian

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• Re:can't appease the SJW crowd Re:can't appease the SJW crowd (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @09:06PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 10 2017, @09:06PM (#491941)

  "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

  Perhaps this situation isn't quite what C. S. Lewis was referring to. This tyranny is much better. This tyranny is exercised for the good of theoretical victims.

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• Re:can't appease the SJW crowd Re:can't appease the SJW crowd (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 10 2017, @09:17PM (1 child)

  by tangomargarine (667) on Monday April 10 2017, @09:17PM (#491944)

  Celine's Third Law: [wikipedia.org]

  An honest politician is a national calamity.

  --
  "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

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    Re:can't appease the SJW crowd (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:35AM (#492056)

    Those books are so deep.
    If you are a college freshman.
    Are you gonna start quoting the church of the subgenius too?

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