function onPlayerReadyVidible(e){'undefined'!=typeof HPTrack&&HPTrack.Vid.Vidible_track(e)}!function(e,i){if(e.vdb_Player){if('object'==typeof commercial_video){var a='',o='m.fwsitesection='+commercial_video.site_and_category;if(a+=o,commercial_video['package']){var c='&m.fwkeyvalues=sponsorship%3D'+commercial_video['package'];a+=c}e.setAttribute('vdb_params',a)}i(e.vdb_Player)}else{var t=arguments.callee;setTimeout(function(){t(e,i)},0)}}(document.getElementById('vidible_1'),onPlayerReadyVidible); U.S. Labor Department officials said they have found systemic compensation disparities against women at Google.Investigators said they discovered the pay disparity during a routine probe to make certain that Google complied with federal law carried out because the company is a government contractor, the Wall Street Journal reported.Officials made the accusation Friday at a hearing before a federal administrative judge in San Francisco. The department is suing Googlefor more data on compensation to complete its probe.Google immediately shot back in a statement to The Guardian, which first revealed the bombshell accusations at the hearing, that it vehemently disagrees with the conclusion, adding that the Labor Department failed to share its facts and methodology with the company so thats it difficult to determine what the comments are based on.The company just boasted days earlier on Twitter that it had closed the gender pay gap not only in the U.S.but globally as well.Let's make every day #EqualPayDay. All employers can take steps to eliminate the gender and race pay gaps, today ' https://t.co/KTuGTJMV16 pic.twitter.com/rBciSK21uF Google (@Google) April 4, 2017 Janet Herold, regional solicitor for the Labor Department, told The Guardian that officials have gatheredcompelling evidence of very significant discrimination against women in the most common positions at Googles California headquarters in Mountain View.She called discrimination against women at Google quite extreme, even in this industry, the newspaper reported.The tech industry has a reputation of largely being a boys club. The Labor Department has moved against other tech corporations on similar grounds. It sued Oracle in January, claiming that it paid white men more than other employees for similar work, which Oracle denied.type=type=RelatedArticlesblockTitle=Related Coverage + articlesList=58e2abffe4b02ef7e0e6df94,58c0408ce4b0a797c1d397da,5703cb8de4b0a06d5806e03f,5800ee9ae4b06e0475944743 -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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