“...Spandow asked for permission to transfer an Oracle employee working in India to California...But Spandow’s manager denied the request...”
or
“...Spandow wanted to give the employee, who had a good track record, “a compensation level that was equivalent to Caucasian employees hired by Oracle for the same position.” But Spandow’s manager denied the request...”
It is not clear to me if this Indian employee ever came to California or not.
If not, it seems that Spandow’s superiors are really saying that 50K is good money in India, which is very different than saying 50K is good money for an Indian in California.
From what I understand, the guy was going to be transferred form India to Calif and so Spandow wanted to change his compensation to match US levels.