Google fired people for protesting. Is that legal?

Get the Full StoryAbout 50 employees were fired for protesting Google s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. Experts say there are few protections in the workplace for political protest.

In the span of a week, Google has reportedly fired about 50 employees over protests of its cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The move came after dozens of employees participated in demonstrations and sit-ins at Google s offices in New York and California last Wednesday, during a day of action organized by the group No Tech for Apartheid, which has spoken out on this issue since 2021. A handful of protesters were arrested on trespassing charges in both New York and Sunnyvale, California, where they spent over nine hours in the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian.

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