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Shareholders Sue Alphabet's Board For Role In Allegedly Covering Up Sexual Misconduct By Senior Execs (cnbc.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Attorneys in San Francisco representing an Alphabet shareholder are suing the board of directors for allegedly covering up sexual misconduct claims against top executives. The suit comes months after an explosive New York Times report detailed how Google shielded executives accused of sexual misconduct, either by keeping them on staff or allowing them amicable departures. For example, Google reportedly paid Android leader Andy Rubin a $90 million exit package, despite asking for his resignation after finding sexual misconduct claims against him credible.
The new lawsuit, filed in California's San Mateo County, asserts claims for breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, unjust enrichment, and waste of corporate assets. The attorneys say the lawsuit is the result of "an extensive original investigation into non-public evidence" and produced copies of internal Google minutes from board of directors meetings. "The Directors' wrongful conduct allowed the illegal conduct to proliferate and continue," the suit reads. "As such, members of Alphabet's Board were knowing and direct enablers of the sexual harassment and discrimination."
The new lawsuit, filed in California's San Mateo County, asserts claims for breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, unjust enrichment, and waste of corporate assets. The attorneys say the lawsuit is the result of "an extensive original investigation into non-public evidence" and produced copies of internal Google minutes from board of directors meetings. "The Directors' wrongful conduct allowed the illegal conduct to proliferate and continue," the suit reads. "As such, members of Alphabet's Board were knowing and direct enablers of the sexual harassment and discrimination."
You mean all this time people could sue over senior management committing "breach of fiduciary duty, abuse of control, unjust enrichment, and waste of corporate assets"?
For most of them that's the only reason they wanted those jobs in the first place.
And then they try to virtue signal by firing that autistic guy for writing that naive memo...despicable.
That's a whole load of crap. Responsible people act responsibly. Don't tar all of us with the "man is sexual creature" brush just because you can't keep your penis in your pants.
People live up to my personal standard of morality because I repeatedly say they do regardless of all evidence to the contrary!
Humans are also creatures that eat. The desire to eat it way stronger tha nthe desire to have sex. If you put humans around a souce of food, they will start killing and eating it. o eally we should expect owrkplae cannibalism.
Or we should expect people to exert some self control. We'e not talking about someone starved of resouces here either. It'a guy woth 300,000,000. If he's that desperate for sex, he couls always wait until the end of the day and go hire a sex worker.
But no, you'e just an apologist. Clearly you don't think it's important becuase you're talking about "flirting and microaggeaaions". You have never bothered to read about what happened because you clearly don't think this is fundamantally important and it's all more or less equivalent.
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