At some point, the NLRB will look back on the Advice Memorandum prepared by one of its regional attorneys concerning the Google/James Damore charge and ask itself how such a poorly thought out opinion letter made it into the Board's jurisprudence. The Memorandum has been excoriated in a number of different places. I don't mean to rehash those criticisms here.Some background first. Damore was a Google employee who, in response to diversity training at the company and at the request of a company HR manager, drafted a memo that raised a basic question concerning the effectiveness of Google's diversity initiatives with respect to women. Damore initially circulated the first draft of the document with the HR management team through a feedback form it provided. The memorandum was eventually published on a companywide discussion group called "coffee beans", specifically designed to discuss Google's diversity and inclusion programs.Damore's…
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