Less than three years after thousands of Google employees left their offices to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment, the search giant’s employees are raising the issue again in response to a damn report.
in the a letter published Friday Titled “Alphabet, Stop Protecting Harassers”: LINK THESE dozen of employees said the company had a pattern to protect those accused of wrongdoing. They asked Alphabet Inc.
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Chief Executive Sundar Pichai to relieve harassers of their management responsibilities and remove them from employees who have been confirmed to have been harassed.
“Alphabet employees deserve the right to work in an environment free from their abusers,” said the staff in the letter, in response to a statement by Emi Nietfeld, a former, published in the New York Times earlier this week Google engineer who was released wrote that she left the company after being forced to continue working with someone who was harassing her.
In the letter, staff also said the strike’s demands “are still waiting to be met,” including the fact that Google is no longer asking temporary workers, salespeople and contract workers (TVC) to agree to arbitration.
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In November 2018 Thousands of Google employees went out in protest After a New York Times story revealed the company paid hundreds of millions of dollars to former executives charged with harassment, in many cases without disclosing why they left Google.
One of the demands of the strike was that the company suspend compulsory arbitration to keep such cases secret. Following the strike – and the ensuing litigation – Google removed mandatory harassment, discrimination, and retaliation arbitration in all Alphabet companies, but not TVCs.
Google did not respond to a request for comment. The Alphabet Workers Unionwho did not sign the letter did not return a request for comment.
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