Unbelieveable. Google has made the astonishing claim it would be too expensive to release data on whether its male and female employees are paid equally -- despite reporting a whopping $28 billion in revenue last year.
With widespread allegations of gender discrimination and sexual harassment, Silicon Valley is under increasing pressure to sort its act out.
Now this issue has started to hit headlines, SumOfUs members like you need to amp up the pressure and force Google to release its pay data for everyone to see.
Google: release your gender pay data!
Google has been taken to court by the United States Department of Labor which has claimed it has “significant” evidence of gender pay discrimination.
It would cost just $100,000 to produce the data to prove its innocence, but Google won’t stump up the cash.
Janette Wipper, a regional director for the DOL, said, “We found systemic compensation disparities against women pretty much across the entire workforce.”
As a federal contractor, Google’s pay discrimination could represent a violation of its obligation to the government. Google has refuted the allegations, claiming, “Every year, we do a comprehensive and robust analysis of pay across genders and we have found no gender pay gap.”
But if that’s true, then why is Google refusing to release its salary data? Search me…
We can take them on. Over 140,000 SumOfUs members like you signed the petition when Google was promoting the ivory trade -- forcing the multinational to remove all ivory and whale products from its its shopping sites around the world.
Google: release your gender pay data!
Your voice can make a difference. It’s time to tell Google to search its pockets and release its pay data.
More information
Forbes. 8 April 2017.
The Guardian. 26 May 2017.