Google fires fifth activist employee in three weeks; complaint filed

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Security engineer deleted after using internal system to remind colleagues of their right to take collective action.

Google fires fifth activist employee in three weeks; complaint filed
Alphabet Inc's Google fired a security engineer on Friday after she used an internal alert system to remind colleagues that they had the right to take collective action. Kathryn Spiers, a two-year member of the security team recently working on the Chrome browser, said she had authority to use ...

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