The Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and Oracle America, Inc. (Oracle) have reached an agreement to drop their respective lawsuits against each other, bringing an end to nearly four years of formal administrative enforcement proceedings against Oracle brought by the agency, and what was shaping up to be many more years of litigation brought by Oracle against OFCCP in federal court.
As we reported earlier, in a blow to OFCCP’s compensation discrimination litigation strategy, a Department of Labor (DOL) administrative law judge (ALJ) ruled this past September that the agency had failed to prove that alleged compensation disparities impacting female and minority Oracle employees were either the result of intentional race and sex discrimination, the result of “steering” discrimination, or were due to the company’s compensation policy. OFCCP had until December 7, 2020, to appeal the decision to DOL’s Administrative Review Board (ARB).
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