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The Google diversity hiring wars rage on.
Another former Google employee is suing Google for wrongful termination. This time, the plaintiff is a recruiter — someone who was actually responsible for carrying out Google’s diversity initiatives, and who found them discriminatory.
Arne Wilberg was a recruiter on Google’s technology and engineering hiring team for YouTube. He claims he was let go after criticizing, and refusing to conform to, Google’s hiring mandate to prioritize candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups, and de-prioritize white and Asian men. Read more…
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A federal body overseeing labor disputes advised the dismissal of Jeremy Damore’s claim that Google fired him unjustly for his controversial memo regarding inclusion and diversity programs at the company. Citing similar precedents, the NLRB counsel deemed parts of the memo “so harmful, discriminatory, and disruptive” as to shed their status as protected speech in the workplace. 
James Damore, a former Google engineer who was fired in August after posting a memo to an internal Google message board arguing that women may not be equally represented in tech because they are biologically less capable of engineering, has filed a class action lawsuit against the company in Santa Clara Superior Court in Northern California.