Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by SamReidHughes on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:35AM
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That's not how it works. Google can fire him for no reason, and arguing with a company's policies on a mailing list is a pretty good reason to fire. Like, it's perfectly legit for a company to say shut up and get with the pogrom. Even if he's fired for saying stuff that is true. Edit: However, there might be specific technical reasons it's an illegal firing outlined in other posts in this thread. IANAL
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by mc32 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:41AM
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But they didn't fire him for no reason. They fired him for a reason, but not a reason you typically fire someone for. Ergo either big severance + NDA or forthcoming lawsuit.
Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
by SamReidHughes on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @01:54AM
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What I'm disagreeing with your post is the general "free speech" issue. That's not going to be it. It might be some specific "raising concerns about discrimination" reason, sure. I'm not sure we're really disagreeing -- I'm only disagreeing with the general nature of your previous post. I agree that hypothetically they fired him for some illegal reason -- or that at least such could be argued in court (for all I know).