BENGALURU: The US Department of Labor has accused US-based Oracle of discrimination against Indian, Asian and African Americans employees by paying lower wages of as much as 25% for comparable positions than white or non Asians in the company.While Oracle favoured Indian nationals in Asians to hire for product development roles, they were being discriminated in wages along with African nationals and Hispanics compared to whites in its US operations. “It impermissibly denies equal employment opportunity to non-Asian applicants for employment, strongly preferring a workforce that it can later underpay. Once employed, women, Blacks and Asians are systematically underpaid relative to their peers,” the office of the federal contract compliance programmes (OFCCP) of the US Department of Labor said in its complaint. The complaint is against Oracle in the US and refers to investigations done at its headquarters in Redwood Shores. Oracle is among the earliest US product firms to set up development centres in India.Oracle India declined to comment on the development. The complaint said that non-white employees lost wages of around $400 million between January 2013 and December 2016. The discrimination affected around 11,000 Asian nationals. Oracle had a programme to recruit engineers from campuses in India, it said.