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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
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday April 12 2017, @12:47AM
You've gotten the cart before the horse. Have you ever noticed that tipping doesn't take place in most of the rest of the world?
The REASON we tip wait staff, is that we exempted them from minimum wage laws when the minimum wage was dreamed up. Corruption reigned then, as always. Lobbyists worked hard to specifically exempt farm workers, food service, and wait staff from the laws, claiming that each of those groups received certain benefits on the job. When minimum wage was created, we established an entire separate class of workers who could be exploited independently of all other workers.
https://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm [dol.gov]
The fact that the US has established a custom of "tipping" over the past 80 years or so doesn't make an inequitable wage law moral or just. The fact that most people in the US can't remember, and haven't been taught, how the law came to be, doesn't make that law moral or just. The US was slow to adopt minimum wages, just as it was slow to outlaw slavery. When it did adopt minimum wage, the US got things all wrong.
There is no justification for any exemption to minimum wage laws.
And, historically, as applied to wait staff, the law is indeed misogynistic. Male waiters have historically been paid more than females. Males have always had more choices, and males often move on from waiting to other work. Females often spend their entire careers in waitress work.
Read up on the history of the law before you tell me how fair it is.