An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNNMoney: The Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against Google on Wednesday to get the Internet company to turn over compensation data on its employees. The data request is part of a routine audit into Google’s equal opportunity hiring practices, which is required because of the company’s role as a federal contractor. Google provides cloud computing services to various federal agencies and the military. Google is obligated to let the government access records that show its hiring doesn’t discriminate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender and more. According to the lawsuit, Google has repeatedly refused to provide names, contact information, job history and salary history details that the government has requested for its employees. The Labor Department is now requesting that a judge order all of Google’s federal contracts canceled unless it complies with the data request. “Despite many opportunities to produce this information voluntarily, Google has refused to do so,” Thomas M. Dowd, acting director for the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, said in a statement. “We filed this lawsuit so we can obtain the information we need to complete our evaluation.”
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