Oracle faces claims of unequal pay from 4,000+ women after judge upgrades gender gap lawsuit to class action A lawsuit filed against Oracle on behalf of six women seeking to be paid as much as their male colleagues has been certified as a class action – a legal milestone that will allow thousands of women a chance to have their gender discrimination claims heard. In 2017, Xian Murray, Sophy Wang, and Rong Jewett, who had been …
"In November, Oracle filed a counterclaim against the government, insisting the Uncle Sam didn't have the authority to block contracts or challenge Oracle's payment practices."
Really?
First, The Equal Pay Act of 1963 (as amended to include salaried professionals) administered by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Plus the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs which is charged with monitoring federal contractors.
Another Oracle nuisance suit.
The settlement, when in or out of court, IMHO should always be two amounts.
A) the amount required to compensate the victims fairly based on their losses (and possible additional for stress etc) .
B) the cost, ie the lawyers fees.
It annoys me every time we see a class action result in multi-million dollar settlements where the victims don't even get their loses covered because the lawyers take so much. No one should be agreeing to a settlement like that, especially if it's an out of court settlement.
Does that include female CEOs running companies where this discrimination is also going on?
It's not all "sisters together". It's sociopaths of whatever gender looking for any possible way of reducing costs.
I know discrimination happens, but I can't put my mind in the position of someone who does it. If some one is capable of and doing a job at a particular skill level, pay them the going rate. Why should it matter whether their dangly bits are at chest or groin height or what colour the skin is?
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"Uber in 2018 "payed" $10m to settle pay discrimination claims brought by 400 female and minority engineers."
Have we got 10 year olds writing here now? It's "paid", dammit. Unprofessional journalism at its finest. Look up the words "proofread", and "spellcheck", you'll learn something. Is mummy too busy doing ironing to help? :)
No you don't. The last thing Oracle wants is to have its internal practices laid bare in a court and take the risk of having a court decision make it change.
IBM was going to fight tooth and nail in much the same case of discrimination and it folded like a wet mop and settled to avoid a definitive decision.
I think that, if Oracle can, it will settle, because that will allow it to continue its practices which it probably believes will cost it less in the long run. The only question in my mind is : can it settle now that the case has class action status ? I don't know the rules on that.
THAT EVERY WOMEN IN AMERICA IS UNDERPAID IN EVERY PROFESSION ( except maybe the oldest profession ).
The sad and ironic part the majority of REPUBLICAN WOMEN VOTE AND SUPPORT THAT .. THEY ARE BRAIN-WASHED INTO THINKING HAVING A VAGINA THAT POPS OUT A KID MEANS THEY SHOULD EARN LESS .
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