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Fired Google engineer loses diversity memo challenge — Bloomberg

By TechTaffy Desk

Google’s firing of an engineer over his controversial memo criticizing its diversity policies and “politically correct monoculture” didn’t violate U.S. labor law; Josh Eidelson of Bloomberg writes.

Here is the link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-16/google-firing-of-damore-was-legal-u-s-labor-panel-lawyer-said

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