Discriminating Against Oracle
Why hasn’t Trump’s Labor secretary killed an Obama-era lawsuit?
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has tried to ease regulation, but unfair enforcement is another story. Witness Labor’s continuing stickup of Oracle over diversity in hiring based on dubious evidence.
Mere days before Barack Obama left office, Labor sued Oracle for discrimination. The lawsuit supposedly stemmed from a routine audit of Oracle’s hiring and pay in 2014. The complaint says Oracle discriminated against “qualified” blacks, Asians and women in “product development roles” by paying them less than whites in similar...