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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   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday April 10 2017, @09:21PM (2 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Monday April 10 2017, @09:21PM (#491946)

    Google is a for-profit company so you can deduce what their motivations are. Trust Google to act for the good of Google. Sometimes we get lucky and it coincides with our interests.

    The government, on the other hand...theoretically they shouldn't really have any motivations. Our representatives should work solely to perform the will of the People. But of course 49% of the People are idiots ;)

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 10 2017, @10:46PM (1 child)

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 10 2017, @10:46PM (#491989) Journal

    I suspect the idiot quote is more like 80%..
    Not that soylentnews is demographically representative by a long shot..

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @01:41AM (#492063)

      > I suspect the idiot quote is more like 80%..

      Nope, it is exactly 44.4%.