Oracle’s Win Over DOL Will Shake Up Pay Equity Enforcement (1)

Oracle’s victory in a Labor Department pay discrimination lawsuit dealt a blow to how the agency scrutinizes federal contractors’ compensation practices and will likely alter how it litigates cases alleging unfair pay based on race and sex, lawyers said.

A DOL administrative law judge ruled Tuesday that Oracle didn’t discriminate against women and minorities in pay, closing a chapter in the multi-year saga for both the tech giant and the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

“It’s not that OFCCP lost, they were annihilated,” said David Cohen, co-chair of the Institute for Workplace Equality, a business group specializing ...