Oracle, DOL Dig in Heels Over $400 Million Pay Bias Claims (1)

While the Labor Department said Dec. 5 that its lawsuit against Oracle Corp. is “the biggest enforcement case” it’s ever brought against a federal contractor, Oracle claimed the agency’s allegations of systemic pay discrimination are “entirely divorced” from how the company determines worker pay.

Lawyers for the DOL said during an administrative trial in California that Oracle takes a centralized, “top-down” style in determining employee compensation, which violates federal contractor obligations that require anti-discrimination steps to be taken, “by directing, overseeing, and failing to correct pay discrimination.”

This isn’t the case, attorneys for the technology company said. Oracle’s compensation decisions ...