{"id":20564,"date":"2019-12-09T21:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20564"},"modified":"2019-12-09T21:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:22:27","slug":"google-under-the-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20564","title":{"rendered":"GOOGLE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has opened an investigation into Google&#8217;s labor practices in the wake of the tech giant&#8217;s decision to fire four longtime employees involved in worker activism last month, an agency official confirmed to The Hill on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog initiated the investigation in response to a charge brought by the Communication Workers of America on Dec. 5.<\/p>\n<p>The union claims that Laurence Berland, who spent 11 years at Google; Paul Duke, who was with the company for more than eight years; Rebecca Rivers, an employee of four years; and Sophie Waldman, who spent one year and 10 months at Google, were fired in direct response to their labor organizing efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In response, Google unlawfully promulgated and enforced new data classification policies, data protection policies, data protection guidelines, &#8216;community guidelines&#8217; and codes of conduct; initiated investigations against the four above named employee leaders based upon retroactive application of such guidelines; interrogated them; and discharged them on November 25, 2019 within minutes of each other,&#8221; the charge reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20565,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20564\/revisions\/20565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}