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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by jdashg on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:32PM (#25296941)
The employer can't modify the specifics of the resignation by "moving it up", since that's not what the conditional resignation offered. They can fire her, sure, but they can't call it "resignation". You can't "resign" someone, but you can ask for their immediate resignation. If it's not voluntary, it's firing.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by IvyMike on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:45PM (#25297078)
> The employer can't modify the specifics of the resignation

You say this, yet I have seen it done many times.

Of course not being a lawyer of any sort, I don't know. Is there a reference for your claim?

Jeff's email is in line with what I have seen done elsewhere, and given the high profile of the incident, I'd be shocked if legal hadn't been consulted on the wording.