CALIFORNIA — A group of nine former Google employees filed a proposed class action lawsuit Friday, alleging the tech giant unlawfully fired them for staging a peaceful protest against what they claim is the company’s harassment of Muslim and Arab workers and its business ties to Israeli military operations.
The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses Google of violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and several state-level civil rights laws by retaliating against workers who participated in a sit-in protest across its Sunnyvale, CA, and New York City offices on April 16, 2024.
The Google employee protest lawsuit centers on the company’s controversial involvement in Project Nimbus, a cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government. Plaintiffs claim the project directly supports Israeli military operations in Gaza, and their protest sought to expose and challenge this relationship, along with workplace discrimination against Muslim, Palestinian, and Arab staff.
