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Plaintiffs Overcome Summary Judgment Bid by Oracle in Gender-Based Wage Discrimination Suit
April 28, 2021
Monday’s decision handed victory to the three named plaintiffs in a wage discrimination suit, women who were employed in Oracle’s product development, support, and information technology departments in California, and the class they represent. The women filed suit against Oracle America Inc. in 2017, alleging that the company paid them thousands of dollars less per year than it paid men in the same roles. The California state court overseeing the employment class action denied Oracle’s motions in light of numerous issues of triable fact.
The suit claimed that the multinational computer technology company violated California’s Equal Pay Act (EPA) and unfair business practice laws for the unjustifiable pay discrepancy. In this week’s opinion, Judge V. Raymond Swope of the San Mateo Superior Court considered Oracle’s “early” motions for summary adjudication.
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Oracle Can t Shake Huge Pay Bias Class Action
Law360 (April 27, 2021, 10:57 AM EDT) Oracle lost its battle to shut down a sweeping class action accusing it of underpaying thousands of women when a California state court ruled that the company failed to offer a legitimate explanation for dozens of men possibly earning more than the female workers behind the suit.
Cementing a tentative ruling handed down in December, Judge V. Raymond Swope on Monday evening denied Oracle s efforts to win on claims lodged by the three women at the helm of the case and cleared the class action to move ahead.