NEW YORK ― Google employees around the globe staged a walkout Thursday to protest the tech giant’s handling of sexual harassment, prompted by a bombshell New York Times report last week that Google quietly offered several high-profile executives lucrative exit packages after they were accused of sexual misconduct. “Over the past two years, we have terminated 48 people, including 13 senior managers and above for sexual harassment,” Pichai noted in his email. We, Google employees and contractors, will walkout on November 1 at 11:10am to demand these five real changes. “No sexual harassment required!”The first of many coordinated #GoogleWalkout protests has begun - this is at the firm’s office in Singapore. “I think one of the ways we can be better and more transparent is to end forced arbitration in employment contracts ― at the very least, for cases of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct,” he said.

Source: Huffington Post November 01, 2018 15:46 UTC