Oracle Digs in Against Trump Labor Department Over Unfair Pay

Three days before Donald Trump was sworn in as president of the U.S., the Department of Labor dealt a blow to one of the incoming administration’s sole allies in Silicon Valley. Oracle Corp., the agency alleges in its lawsuit, systematically underpaid women, Black, and Asian workers at the company’s headquarters.

The Labor Department and Oracle are still locked in litigation and awaiting a ruling any day on the merits of the discrimination claims, less than 100 days before another presidential election—one that could knock Oracle’s ally Trump out of the White House, and potentially usher in a president ardently ...