Google fires 20 more workers after pro-Palestine sit-ins: Clear violation of our policies [Video]

Google has fired about 20 more staff who protested against the tech giant’s contract with Israel, The Washington Post reports, days after the company’s chief Sundar Pichai urged employees not to “fight over disruptive issues or debate politics” in a memo.

The staff dismissals are a continuation of Google firing 28 employees who protested against the company’s cloud computing contract with the Israeli government last week. The staff were fired after an investigation found that they had staged protests inside Google’s offices in New York and Sunnyvale, California.

In Sunnyvale, the staff entered the office of Google Cloud boss Thomas Kurian, according to No Tech For Apartheid, the group that organised the demonstration.

The terminations came after a continued investigation into the 16 April sit-ins, according to a Google spokesperson.

“Our investigation into these events is now concluded, and we have terminated the employment …