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BREAKING: Oracle shorted women and minority workers $400 million in wages by paying them less than other employees, steering them into jobs at lower level positions trib.al/izfivwx

Allegations stem from a random 2014 audit by the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

Pay records obtained by the Labor Department show that Oracle paid women, black, and Asian employees less than others for similar jobs in:
- IT
- product development
- support

The DOL further alleges that Oracle uses a recent college graduate hiring program to bring in droves of Asian visa holders, whom the company then pays less than their citizen counterparts.

Oracle “impermissibly denies equal employment opportunity to non-Asian applicants for employment, strongly preferring a workforce that it can later underpay."

Follow @PaigeSmithNews and @ChrisOpfer for more on this developing story.

NEW: Federal contractors that employ large numbers of foreign workers might be opening themselves up to a double whammy of Labor Department discrimination claims.

Oracle finds itself in just such a scenario. news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…