LinkedIn Settles With Department of Labor Over Gender-Based Pay Discrimination Allegations

They cover the period of March 1, 2015, through March 1, 2017

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LinkedIn reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor over allegations of systemic, gender-based pay discrimination that the regulator’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs discovered covering the period of March 1, 2015, through March 1, 2017.

The Department of Labor said the OFCCP alleged that the company—which was acquired by Microsoft during that time period, in June 2016—did not provide equal pay to 686 women in its engineering and marketing groups in San Francisco and its engineering and product groups in Sunnyvale, Calif.

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