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Official reportedly made claims in San Francisco court

Department sued Google in January over pay data compliance

Alphabet Inc.’s Google denied Department of Labor allegations
that an in-progress investigation suggests “systemic
compensation disparities against women” at the internet giant.

“Every year, we do a comprehensive and robust analysis of pay
across genders and we have found no gender pay gap,” Google said
in an emailed statement Sunday. “Other than making an unfounded
statement which we heard for the first time in court, the DoL
hasn’t provided any data, or shared its methodology.”

The Guardian reported that Labor Department regional director
Janette Wipper testified in San Francisco court Friday that the
pay disparities against women appear to be found “pretty much
across the entire workforce” at the tech company. The
investigation isn’t complete but the department has received
compelling evidence of “significant discrimination,” the
Guardian reported, citing the Labor Department’s regional
solicitor, Janet Herold.

The allegations come at a time when Silicon Valley is under the
microscope like never before for reports of discrimination
against women. Uber Technologies Inc. has been investigating
claims of sexual harassment from a former engineer, while
investors across the tech world are wondering how to transform
both start-ups and more established digital companies into more
egalitarian workplaces.

The testimony couldn’t be immediately confirmed from court
records. Representatives of the Labor Department in San
Francisco didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on
Sunday.

The department sued Google in January, alleging the company had
failed to turn over compensation data and documents as part of a
routine compliance evaluation. Google is required to let the
government inspect records for an audit because it’s a federal
contractor, according to the Labor Department.

Google already has turned over 1.8 million data points and spent
more than $500,000 to comply with the requests, including having
its engineers build a new tool to extract information from its
databases, said Lisa Barnett Sween, litigation manager with
Jackson Lewis P.C. in San Francisco, representing Google.

A Department of Labor administrative law judge in San Francisco
on Friday granted Google’s request for a preliminary protective
order on its salary data. Google, like many Silicon Valley
companies, fiercely guards compensation used to lure and retain
employees.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-09/google-denies- labor-department-s-pay-disparity-allegations
 

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