> The Department of Labor’s increasingly heated dispute with Google over a gender pay gap began, innocently enough, with a routine audit.

> During the audit, however, the agency found “systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce,” according to testimony from a DoL official.

> The lawsuit was about accessing data, not the merits of the DoL’s arguments, she says, pointing out that the government has yet to present its case.

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