A few dozen Google employees in Switzerland held an event on Monday on labour law and worker rights that the tech company’s executives had repeatedly tried to shut down, according to four Google employees familiar with the matter.
Though relatively small, the incident was the culmination of a months-long dispute between Google staff members and senior managers who had taken steps to control such action, according to the employees and internal messages seen by Bloomberg News. The employees said the purpose of the event was to better understand their rights amid rising tensions between staffers and managers at Google.