US to accuse Google of labour violations in clampdown on protests, fired employees say


Signage is displayed at an entrance to a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, California, US. Berland said the NLRB found Google violated labour law by placing workers on administrative leave and terminating one of them for accessing documents related to how the company polices internal forums. — Bloomberg

OAKLAND, California: The US National Labor Relations Board will file a complaint accusing Alphabet Inc’s Google of unlawfully monitoring and questioning workers, who were fired for protesting against company policies and trying to organise a union, the former employees said in a statement on Dec 2.

The NLRB did not respond to a request for comment.

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