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US Department of Labor accuses Google of underpaying women

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The U. S. Department of Labor says Google discriminates against female employees in pay at a level that’s even worse than the tech industry as a whole, The Guardian reported on Friday.
The U. S. Department of Labor says Google discriminates against female employees in pay at a level that’s even worse than the tech industry as a whole.
The department has found “systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,” Labor Department Regional Director Janette Wipper testified in a court in San Francisco on Friday, according to a report by The Guardian. Janet Herold, the department’s regional solicitor, told the Guardian that pay discrimination against women was extreme.
Wipper said that the DoL found pay disparities in a snapshot of salaries from 2015, according to the Guardian.
Wipper’s testimony was part of a hearing about a lawsuit that the Labor Department brought against Google to force the company to hand over salary information.

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