U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination

Re:U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination by mulmen on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @08:33PM (#13432198)

State intervention depends on the cause(s). Direct intervention against the employer like this would make sense if there was deliberate discrimination in violation of the law.

I agree the state should be acting at a much higher level to solve these problems. This could take the form of education incentives to get a more diverse workforce or do something about income inequality that prevents some demographics from pursuing certain career paths.

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Re:U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination by pm90 on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:29PM (#13433024)

I agree with this comment. I don't think the DOL would act unless it had information that goes beyond just over representation of certain races in the company's labor force.

Anecdotally, a friend who was interviewing with Oracle was given a lowball offer by a Oracle recruiter of the same ethnicity and told that it was "a very good offer for a person like you". At the time I believed it was just a rogue interviewer, but it sounds like this may have been more widespread.

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Re:U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination by mulmen on Thursday January 19, 2017 @12:37AM (#13433317)

I don't doubt your friends perception but as a white male if someone said "a person like you" to me in reference to an offer I would think they were referencing my education or work experience, not my gender or race. That may be privilege talking, I honestly don't know. Maybe I'm just naive.

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