Given the sensitivity of this issue. mell industries has hired cal poly pomona to conduct an independent assessment using a sample set of 747 employee records. the company has also offered cal poly pomona bonus compensation for any promising information provided. mell industries intends to use these findings to design business controls for ensuring equity in all pay scales and functional roles. these improvements will guide all future employee compensation reviews. the sample dataset has been given to you as an excel spreadsheet titled sample_dataset. xlsx consisting of data with the following 12 column headers. • column a - employee id • column b - gender • column c - date of birth • column d-date of hire column e - termination date • column f - occupation • column g-salary column h to l-employee evaluation metrics using columns h to l, you will complete a performance rating logic shown in section 7 of this project. the objective of this project is to complete all tasks and determine if allegations into equa pay discrimination have merit.