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What you need to know GitHub offered a job back to the employee who was fired for warning employees about Nazis. The former employee declined to take the offer to return to GitHub. The parties have reportedly come to an amicable resolution. Earlier this year, a GitHub employee lost their job following comments warning other employees on Slack about Nazis at the attacks on the U.S. Capitol. GitHub has since performed an investigation of the incident and offered the person their job back. The person, however, declined to return to GitHub. According to TechCrunch, the employee and GitHub reached an amicable resolution, though the details of that resolution have not been revealed. ....
Fired GitHub employee reaches ‘amicable resolution’ with company GitHub has reached an “amicable resolution” with the person the company fired in the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. Capitol in January, the former employee told TechCrunch. On the day a violent mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, a worried GitHub employee warned his co-workers in the D.C. area to be safe. After making a comment in Slack saying, “stay safe homies, Nazis are about,” a fellow employee took offense, saying that type of rhetoric wasn’t good for work, the former employee previously told me. Two days later, he was fired, with a human relations representative citing a “pattern of behavior that is not conducive to company policy” as the rationale for his termination, he previously told me. ....
Instacart to eliminate about 2,000 jobs and GitHub head of HR resigns Hey y’all. You’ve just landed on Human Capital, the weekly newsletter that details the latest in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech. The week kicked off with GitHub making a public apology to the person the company terminated for cautioning his employees about Nazis in D.C. on the day of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Later in the week, Google revoked corporate access from AI ethicist Margaret Mitchell in what some are saying is reminiscent of the company’s treatment of Dr. Timnit Gebru. Meanwhile, Instacart is making some changes to its platform that will result in job loss. ....
Microsoft-owned code silo admits significant errors of judgment and procedure Share Copy GitHub has apologized for what it called “significant errors of judgment and procedure” in the firing of a Jewish employee for warning colleagues of neo-Nazis at the Capitol during its ransacking by pro-Trump rioters this month. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting biz s COO Erica Brescia said in a blog post, emitted late on Friday before America s long Martin Luther King Jr weekend, that it had “engaged an outside investigator to conduct an independent investigation” following complaints from other employees. Three days later, the report came back highlighting “significant errors of judgment,” and bosses decided that “in light of these findings, we immediately reversed the decision to separate with the employee.” ....