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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by rdtsc on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:32AM (#14955026)
But they can always find another reason to let him go. "Restructuring" or some similar thing would work. They just fired him, I presume the lawyers looked at it and probably didn't see much of a risk.
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Re:Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo by jquery on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @02:37AM (#14955061)
Doesn't pass the sniff test. His memo was open, notorious, and even received a response from senior management.

More likely than the lawyers saying the firing was legal, is that Google decided the cost of an illegal firing was less than the cost of keeping him onboard.

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