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May 6, 2024

Google workers fired for Israel protests face tough time proving NLRB complaint

The former employees argue in their complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board that their protests were "protected concerted activity."

Legal experts are skeptical that a group of 50 former Google, Inc. employees, terminated for allegedly protesting the company's business dealings with Israel, will succeed on their complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

Matthew Fontana, a Philadelphia partner for Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP specializing in representing employers in NLRB related actions, and Maria Ontiveros, professor emerita at the University of San Francisco School of Law, both exp...

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