Former Employee sues Google for allegedly discriminating against conservative white men
James Damore sues Google for allegedly discriminating
against conservative white men
By Colin Lecher Jan 8, 2018, 1:59pm EST
The author of the controversial memo that upended Google
in August is suing the company, alleging that white, male conservatives are
systematically discriminated against by Google.
James Damore was fired as an engineer after a manifesto
questioning the benefits of diversity programs was widely passed around the
company. In a new lawsuit, he and another fired engineer claim that “employees
who expressed views deviating from the majority view at Google on political
subjects raised in the workplace and relevant to Google’s employment policies
and its business, such as ‘diversity’ hiring policies, ‘bias sensitivity,’ or
‘social justice,’ were/are singled out, mistreated, and systematically punished
and terminated from Google, in violation of their legal rights.”
Attorneys for Damore and the other engineer, David
Gudeman, filed the lawsuit today in Santa Clara Superior Court, and are seeking
to represent others whose rights they claim were also violated. The lawsuit
contains dozens of pages of internal Google communications that the lawsuit
alleges show bias at the company.
Damore became a minor celebrity in some parts of the
online right after the memo, which questioned whether women were genetically
less suited to engineering jobs, leaked out. “To suggest a group of our
colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is
offensive and not OK,” CEO Sundar Pichai said in an email to staff after Damore
was fired.
Meanwhile, Google is fighting back claims that women at
the company have been systematically underpaid. After a judge dismissed an
initial complaint, a group tried again by amending their complaint this month.
Google did not immediately respond to a request for
comment on Damore’s lawsuit.
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