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Google has sacked 48 people over sexual harassment claims since 2016

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By John Glenday, Reporter

October 26, 2018 | 2 min read

Google's chief executive has revealed it has sacked 48 individuals, including 13 senior managers, since 2016 over sexual harassment allegations directed against them.

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Google adopts ‘hard line’ stance on sexual harassment claims with wave of sackings

Explaining his ‘hard line’ policy in an open letter to all employees, Sundar Pichai wrote: “We want to assure you that we review every single complaint about sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct, we investigate and we take action.”

The letter came following a New York Times article which exposed the ‘hero’s farewell’ given to Android creator Andy Rubin when he walked away with a $90m exit package in 2014 despite facing a number of misconduct allegations – which he denied.

This centred on a ‘credible’ complaint from a female employee about a sexual encounter in a hotel room back in 2013, forcing Larry Page, chief executive at the time, to ask Rubin to resign.

That event prompted a change in policy with none of the employees dismissed over the past two years receiving any form of redundancy package.

Pichai has previously vowed to make Google more inclusive after an 'offensive' memo surfaced from an employee citing 'biological differences' as justification for a lack of female employees.

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