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08-23-2017, 09:40 PM
Ex-Google Engineer Hires Lawyer Shortlisted as Trump Nominee (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-23/ex-google-engineer-james-damore-hires-harmeet-dhillon-as-lawyer)
By Ellen Huet - August 23, 2017
The engineer who was fired by Google after he criticized the company’s diversity policies for ignoring differences between the sexes hired civil rights lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, who was widely reported months ago to be a contender for a top job in the U.S. Justice Department.
Dhillon confirmed Wednesday that she’s representing James Damore, who has said he plans to sue his ex-employer over his firing. He set off a firestorm this month with a 10-page memo blasting Google’s “left bias” for creating a "politically correct monoculture.”
"We are also engaging with several other Google employees or former employees who have suffered adverse employment actions at Google," Dhillon said in a statement. "We are exploring all potential legal avenues for these clients, and gathering facts about working conditions at Google, particularly for those whose views are inconsistent with Google’s political orthodoxy."
In a statement Wednesday, Google said it has strong policies against retaliation, harassment and discrimination in the workplace, and strongly supports “the right of Googlers to express themselves.”
“An important part of our culture is lively debate,” Ty Sheppard, a spokesman for the company, said in the emailed statement. “But like any workplace that doesn’t mean that anything goes.”
Dhillon was on President Donald Trump’s shortlist to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in March, according to press reports. The president ended up nominating employment-management attorney Eric Dreiband in June.
Dhillon has taken on other cases that push back against the Bay Area’s progressive tendencies. In one, she represents the California Bail Agents Association fighting a class-action lawsuit alleging that San Francisco’s bail system discriminates against poor people who can’t afford to post bond while awaiting trial in criminal cases.
In another, she filed a complaint against the city of San Jose, California, on behalf of Trump supporters who claim police officers didn’t protect them from being beaten by anti-Trump protesters at a 2016 campaign rally.
She also represented Republican student groups at the University of California at Berkeley who fought to prevent the cancellation of a campus speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter in April, according to press reports.
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More: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-23/ex-google-engineer-james-damore-hires-harmeet-dhillon-as-lawyer
By Ellen Huet - August 23, 2017
The engineer who was fired by Google after he criticized the company’s diversity policies for ignoring differences between the sexes hired civil rights lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, who was widely reported months ago to be a contender for a top job in the U.S. Justice Department.
Dhillon confirmed Wednesday that she’s representing James Damore, who has said he plans to sue his ex-employer over his firing. He set off a firestorm this month with a 10-page memo blasting Google’s “left bias” for creating a "politically correct monoculture.”
"We are also engaging with several other Google employees or former employees who have suffered adverse employment actions at Google," Dhillon said in a statement. "We are exploring all potential legal avenues for these clients, and gathering facts about working conditions at Google, particularly for those whose views are inconsistent with Google’s political orthodoxy."
In a statement Wednesday, Google said it has strong policies against retaliation, harassment and discrimination in the workplace, and strongly supports “the right of Googlers to express themselves.”
“An important part of our culture is lively debate,” Ty Sheppard, a spokesman for the company, said in the emailed statement. “But like any workplace that doesn’t mean that anything goes.”
Dhillon was on President Donald Trump’s shortlist to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division in March, according to press reports. The president ended up nominating employment-management attorney Eric Dreiband in June.
Dhillon has taken on other cases that push back against the Bay Area’s progressive tendencies. In one, she represents the California Bail Agents Association fighting a class-action lawsuit alleging that San Francisco’s bail system discriminates against poor people who can’t afford to post bond while awaiting trial in criminal cases.
In another, she filed a complaint against the city of San Jose, California, on behalf of Trump supporters who claim police officers didn’t protect them from being beaten by anti-Trump protesters at a 2016 campaign rally.
She also represented Republican student groups at the University of California at Berkeley who fought to prevent the cancellation of a campus speech by conservative commentator Ann Coulter in April, according to press reports.
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More: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-23/ex-google-engineer-james-damore-hires-harmeet-dhillon-as-lawyer