Google caught in diversity, discrimination row

The US Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) during a routine anti-discrimination audit claims that Google refused to offer data that they were seeking during the anti-discrimination audit in 2015. The OFCCP is now seeking a court order to force the search giant into revealing the data.

OFCCB may also consider cancelling the company's current government contracts and also ensure it can't sign any new ones. Google systems have been helping the government, and are said to be technically a federal contractor. And government claims to be seeking data to ensure that the company operates in a manner that adheres to equal employment laws.

On the other hand, Google has claimed that sharing such data would mean breach of privacy. The company further claims that it has already shared 'hundreds of thousands' of other reports, but OFCCP wanting to see its employees' salaries could mean 'revealing confidential data'.

It has also brought to light the not-so-popular diversity at Google. Google begun releasing diversity report from 2014, but unfortunately, not much has changed in its report from 2014 to 2015. According to the report, white employees account for 60 percent of the workforce, 31 percent of Asians, 2 percent African-Americans, 3 percent Hispanics, 3 percent multiracial individuals and less than 1 percent of Native American and Pacific Islanders. Further, according to the report, women made up 31 percent of Google's overall workforce in 2015, which was up by 1 percent from 2014.  

Moreover, it was just recently that tech company Palantir was pulled up for using an algorithm that let it discriminate against Asians.

• Google
• Racial discrimination
• Diversity
• OFCCP