Just a few weeks before President Trump took office, the Obama administration rolled out a series of discrimination lawsuits that lack congressional authority and make use of sly statistical reasoning to bludgeon technology companies.
The lawsuits against Oracle, Google, Palantir Technologies, and Dell are based solely on highly subjective, skewed readings of hiring practices and compensation figures. This was done on the part of Obama-era bureaucrats who failed to account for a wide variety of variables. While Palantir and Dell have quietly capitulated, Google and Oracle are pushing back against the Department of Labor and its Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
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