The US Department of Labor may prohibit Google through the court to cooperate with the country's authorities

The US Department of Labor on January 4 sent a lawsuit against Google to the court of administrative cases demanding that the agency provide confidential information about thousands of employees, AP reports. If Google refuses to fulfill this requirement, then the Ministry of Labor will receive the right to cancel the current contracts of the company with the federal authorities and ban the conclusion of new agreements.

According to the materials of the lawsuit, Google has repeatedly refused to provide the Ministry of Labor with a number of information about employees who would help the department make sure that the company does not have discrimination of workers on racial or sexual basis.

"Like other contractors of government agencies, Google is obliged to provide the requested information as part of the standard cooperation procedure," said the representative of the Ministry of Labor Thomas Dod.

In turn, in the Google statement it is noted that the company transferred hundreds of thousands of records to the department, but refused to satisfy some requests of the Ministry of Labor, since they violated the right of the company's employees to private life.

Over the past 10 years, Google has concluded a number of contracts with US state bodies. So, the agreement with the Ministry of Labor in the field of Internet advertising brought the company over 600 thousand dollars from June 2014. However, this amount specified in the materials of the lawsuit is extremely insignificant for Google, the total revenue of which for the same period exceeded 130 billion dollars.