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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 The Mighty Buzzard on Monday April 10 2017, @09:55PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday April 10 2017, @09:55PM (#491958) Homepage Journal

    Until he gets around to replacing them, yep. In any case, this was started over a year ago.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday April 10 2017, @10:04PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday April 10 2017, @10:04PM (#491963)

    It normally doesn't matter when an investigation started. The department boss can always shelve it at the last second if his new boss has other priorities.
    One of the new guys at the top had to greenlight such a high-profile case.
    And you can't call the new guys SJW unless you want me to have to buy a new ironometer.

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @12:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @12:30AM (#492036)

      One of the new guys at the top

      There are zero Trump-nominated, Senate-confirmed "new guys at the top" of the Department of Labor; Edward Hugler, who's been with the department since at least 1998, is currently Acting Secretary of Labor.

      Check this nominee tracker [washingtonpost.com] (from the Washington Post, if you care); Department of Labor is about halfway down. (This tracker only covers nominations to be confirmed by the Senate; I don't know what, if any, positions in the department are filled by direct appointment; if there are any such, Trump may have appointed them already, but they're certainly not "at the top".)

      There are 14 positions listed; Trump's first nomination for Secretary of Labor (Andrew Puzder) was withdrawn in February, and his second nomination (Alexander Acosta) is waiting on the Senate. The 13 lower-ranking positions have no nominees at this time.