The US National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against tech giant Google. According to lawyers of the federal agency in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley firm violated labour law when it fired two of its employees in November 2019. As a result, the case of Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers is to be examined by an administrative court, before being assessed by the five members of the NLRB in Washington. The latter may request in the coming months that the former employees in question be reinstated and that they be paid retroactively for wages missed out on while they were out of work.
These two engineers were among a handful of staff that were dismissed last year when several thousand employees protested against their management. Some 20,000 people staged a walkout when they learned that a former executive, accused of sexual harassment, had quietly walked away with a cheque for $90 million. At the same time, anger was mounting over a project in partnership with the US Department of Defense, to improve its drone strike capabilities.
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