Google at centre of £70m 'sexual harassment' pay-off row

Forty-eight Google employees have been sacked following sexual harassment allegations over the last two years, the company’s CEO has revealed.

The axed employees included 13 senior managers. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai said that employees who lost their jobs on the grounds of sexual harassment didn’t receive a severance package.

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Pichai said that the company was taking an “increasingly hard line” on sexual misconduct in a letter to employees – The Independent reports.

Despite this publicly-stated zero tolerance approach, Google were once inundated with sexual misconduct allegations against the company's former CEO, Andy Rubin.