discrimination

#MeTooPay campaign launched to end gender pay discrimination | Society 0
- BUSINESS
- October 2, 2019
More than 100 of the UK’s most successful women have launched a campaign to end pay discrimination, after being shocked by the details of a female banker’s employment battle. The #MeTooPay campaign has brought together high profile names across politics, the arts and business, including former Royal Mail boss Moya Greene, GSK chief executive Emma
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Race after Technology: Racial discrimination in the algorithm age | Emerging tech & innovation 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- June 5, 2019
You may have seen a Youtube clip of the ‘racist soap dispenser’, which while happily plopping a globule of soap onto a white hand, simply sits schtum when a black hand is passed beneath. A fairly low-stakes incident of a machine exhibiting racial discrimination some might say – in this case, because the infrared light doesn’t bounce sufficiently off darker skin. This is
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Oracle accuses US of underhand tactics because discrimination case ‘doomed to fail’ • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 7, 2019
Oracle has accused the US Department of Labor of bringing new claims into a pay discrimination suit because it knows its original case against the Silicon Valley corp will fail, and of “coordinating” with the lawyers for plaintiffs in a civil case. The Silicon Valley corp said a second set of claims filed by the
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