Costly dispute | Google ex-employee scores payout after being 'sacked for workplace activism'

Google has reportedly settled with a former worker who was allegedly sacked after criticising the firm’s political involvement – reigniting the debate around workplace activism.

As reported by Bloomberg, and later The Verge, one of the tech giant’s former employees, Laurence Berland, was fired in 2019 allegedly for violating Google’s data security policies.