谷歌面臨歧視保守派白人的訴訟案

Two former employees of Google have accused the tech giant of discriminating against conservative white men, in a class action lawsuit filed Monday.

One of the accusers, James Damore, was fired from the company last year after writing a memo defending the gender gap in Silicon Valley tech jobs as possibly a matter of biological differences between men and women.

Damore and David Gudeman, another former engineer at the Google, filed the suit at the Santa Clara Superior Court in California, alleging discrimination and retaliation.

The two argue in their suit that Google uses illegal hiring quotas to fill jobs with women and minority applicants.

The suit also accuses the company of not protecting employees with conservative viewpoints, including employees who support U.S. President Donald Trump.

Google said it looks forward to defending itself against the allegations in court.

Google fired Damore in August after he wrote an internal memo that was later made public in which he said that “genetic differences” may explain “why we don't see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.”

Google chief Sundar Pichai said "portions of the memo violate our code of conduct and cross the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace.

Damore said his memo was intended to remain internal.在星期一提起的集體訴訟中，兩名谷歌公司前僱員指控高科技巨頭谷歌公司歧視保守的白人。

起訴谷歌的兩人之一達莫爾去年被解僱。在那之前，他寫信給公司，爲硅谷科技工作職位中男多女少的現象辯護，說原因可能是男女生理的不同。

達莫爾和前谷歌工程師古德曼在加利福尼亞州的聖克拉拉高級法院提起了訴訟，指控谷歌公司歧視和打擊報復。

兩人在起訴中稱，谷歌公司在招聘中非法分配定額，將一些工作留給女性和少數族裔的申請人。

起訴書還稱，谷歌公司不保護持有保守派觀點的僱員，包括支持川普總統的僱員。

谷歌公司說，將在法庭上進行辯護。

達莫爾去年8月寫了一份公司內部信罕，後來被公開。他寫道，可能可以用基因差異來解釋爲什麼在領導層中沒有看到平均的男女比例。

谷歌公司首席執行官皮查伊說，信函的部分內容違背谷歌的行爲準則，在工作場所宣揚有害的性別刻板印象，越過底線。

達莫爾說，他寫的公司內部信函，應僅限於公司內部。