Google fires 5th employee for raising labour rights issue

The internal activism at Google is only growing it seems as the company has fired another employee for sending browser pop-ups about the labour rights at the company.

She becomes the fifth staffer fired for being involved in internal activism, reports The Verge.

Spiers was tasked with sending web browser notifications as pop-ups within the company.

“I created a little notification, only a few lines of code, that pops up in the corner of the browser whenever my coworkers visited the union busters’ website or the community guidelines policy. The notification said: ‘Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities,'” she wrote in a post on Medium.