LABOR DEPARTMENT’S DISGRACEFUL DISCRIMINATION CASE AGAINST ORACLE FAILShttps://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/labor-departments-disgraceful-discrimination-case-against-oracle-fails.phpIn 2017, on its way out the door, the Obama Labor Department filed an action against Oracle for alleged pay discrimination against women and minority group members. The case was based on a flawed — indeed an indefensible — statistical analysis. I explained why in this post.
The Trump administration should have dropped the case straight away. Instead, Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta pursued it. So did Gene Scalia after he became the Secretary in 2019. Both lacked the spine to buck liberal career employees determined to press forward with the Obama Labor Department’s parting gift to the left.
Yesterday, an administrative law judge ruled in favor of Oracle. The judge’s opinion, nearly 300 pages long, is here.
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Here is the bottom line on the DOL’s action against Oracle for $400 million: It netted zero dollars recovered, flushed millions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet, cost Oracle millions of dollars to defend, injured Oracle’s image, and damaged the Labor Department’s reputation and integrity.
Perhaps the one good thing to come out of this is that it's a defeat for the simple-statistic-proves-discrimination legal narrative.
