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   Official reportedly made claims in San Francisco court   
      
   Department sued Google in January over pay data compliance   
      
   Alphabet Inc.’s Google denied Department of Labor allegations   
   that an in-progress investigation suggests “systemic   
   compensation disparities against women” at the internet giant.   
      
   “Every year, we do a comprehensive and robust analysis of pay   
   across genders and we have found no gender pay gap,” Google said   
   in an emailed statement Sunday. “Other than making an unfounded   
   statement which we heard for the first time in court, the DoL   
   hasn’t provided any data, or shared its methodology.”   
      
   The Guardian reported that Labor Department regional director   
   Janette Wipper testified in San Francisco court Friday that the   
   pay disparities against women appear to be found “pretty much   
   across the entire workforce” at the tech company. The   
   investigation isn’t complete but the department has received   
   compelling evidence of “significant discrimination,” the   
   Guardian reported, citing the Labor Department’s regional   
   solicitor, Janet Herold.   
      
   The allegations come at a time when Silicon Valley is under the   
   microscope like never before for reports of discrimination   
   against women. Uber Technologies Inc. has been investigating   
   claims of sexual harassment from a former engineer, while   
   investors across the tech world are wondering how to transform   
   both start-ups and more established digital companies into more   
   egalitarian workplaces.   
      
   The testimony couldn’t be immediately confirmed from court   
   records. Representatives of the Labor Department in San   
   Francisco didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on   
   Sunday.   
      
   The department sued Google in January, alleging the company had   
   failed to turn over compensation data and documents as part of a   
   routine compliance evaluation. Google is required to let the   
   government inspect records for an audit because it’s a federal   
   contractor, according to the Labor Department.   
      
   Google already has turned over 1.8 million data points and spent   
   more than $500,000 to comply with the requests, including having   
   its engineers build a new tool to extract information from its   
   databases, said Lisa Barnett Sween, litigation manager with   
   Jackson Lewis P.C. in San Francisco, representing Google.   
      
   A Department of Labor administrative law judge in San Francisco   
   on Friday granted Google’s request for a preliminary protective   
   order on its salary data. Google, like many Silicon Valley   
   companies, fiercely guards compensation used to lure and retain   
   employees.   
      
   https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-09/google-denies-   
   labor-department-s-pay-disparity-allegations   
      
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