Google told to turn over documents in activists’ US labour case


Bogas ruled that only nine of 80 documents he looked at as of Nov 26 were properly characterised as privileged, said Burgess. — Dreamstime/TNS

Google improperly sought to withhold internal documents from a US National Labour Relations Board trial over complaints that the company fired workers for their unionisation efforts and activism, according to a judge reviewing the material.

NLRB Administrative Law Judge Paul Bogas, who was named as a Special Master to review the documents, ruled that only nine of 80 documents he looked at as of Nov 26 were properly characterised as privileged, Laurie Burgess, a lawyer for the fired workers, said in a statement Tuesday.

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