The Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (Dreamstime)
The critics of Google’s effort to promote workforce diversity now include one of its own former recruiters, who claims in a lawsuit he was fired because he didn’t toe the line on rejecting white and Asian male job candidates.
The Alphabet Inc unit had “irrefutable policies, memorialised in writing and consistently implemented in practice, of systematically discriminating in favour job applicants who are Hispanic, African American, or female, and against Caucasian and Asian men,” according to the complaint filed in state court in Redwood City, California.
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