Google tells court it’s too costly to produce salary records

You could chalk it up to extreme penny-pinching. But for a company that made US$17.4bil (RM74.21bil) in revenue last quarter and employs tens of thousands of people, the claim that spending US$100,000 (RM426,440) and 500 hours of labour to produce salary data in a federal gender-discrimination case was bound to provoke a dubious reaction. 

Google stands accused in a lawsuit by the US Department of Labour of systematically underpaying female employees "pretty much across the entire workforce."