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Title    James Damore's Labor Complaint Against Google Was Completely Shut Down
Date    Tuesday February 20 2018, @01:59AM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the everybody-knows dept.
https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=18/02/19/1632246

aristarchus writes:

From The Verge:

Google didn't violate labor laws by firing engineer James Damore for a memo criticizing the company's diversity program, according to a recently disclosed letter from the US National Labor Relations Board. The lightly redacted statement is written by Jayme Sophir, associate general counsel of the NLRB's division of advice; it dates to January, but was released yesterday, according to Law.com. Sophir concludes that while some parts of Damore's memo were legally protected by workplace regulations, "the statements regarding biological differences between the sexes were so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive as to be unprotected."

Damore filed an NLRB complaint in August of 2017, after being fired for internally circulating a memo opposing Google's diversity efforts. Sophir recommends dismissing the case; Bloomberg reports that Damore withdrew it in January, and that his lawyer says he's focusing on a separate lawsuit alleging discrimination against conservative white men at Google. NLRB records state that its case was closed on January 19th.

There are White House Staff positions open, I hear.

Previously: Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences
Google Cancels "Town Hall" Due to Leaks


Original Submission

Links

  1. "aristarchus" - https://soylentnews.org/~aristarchus/
  2. "The Verge" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/16/17021714/james-damore-google-nlrb-complaint-diversity-discrimination
  3. "firing engineer James Damore" - https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/7/16111052/google-james-damore-fired-anti-diversity-manifesto
  4. "recently disclosed letter" - https://www.nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-205351
  5. "according to Law.com" - https://www.law.com/therecorder/sites/therecorder/2018/02/16/read-the-nlrb-memo-defending-googles-firing-of-james-damore/
  6. "filed an NLRB complaint" - https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/9/16117616/google-engineer-diversity-memo-files-complaint-damore
  7. "circulating a memo" - https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzbm4a/employees-anti-diversity-manifesto-goes-internally-viral-at-google
  8. "Bloomberg reports" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/google-firing-of-damore-was-legal-u-s-labor-panel-lawyer-said
  9. "alleging discrimination" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16863342/james-damore-google-lawsuit-diversity-memo
  10. "NLRB records" - https://www.nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-205351
  11. "Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/08/08/1427229
  12. "Google Cancels "Town Hall" Due to Leaks" - https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/08/11/0158244
  13. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24900

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