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The Silicon Valley giant had ordered employees to stay silent on the landmark case before reaching a settlement with a workers\u2019 union over the issue.<\/p>\n

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When Google lost its landmark antitrust trial in August<\/a>, Kent Walker, its top lawyer, reminded employees, for the third time, that they were not allowed to discuss the case with one another or anyone outside the company.<\/p>\n

On Friday afternoon, Google rescinded the command as part of a settlement with the Alphabet Workers Union, a group representing some of its employees and contractors, according to an email Google sent to workers that was viewed by The New York Times. Alphabet is the parent company of Google.<\/p>\n

The company told employees it would not \u201cannounce or maintain overbroad rules or policies that restrict your right to comment, internally or externally,\u201d about how the antitrust lawsuit targeting Google\u2019s search engine might affect the terms and conditions of their employment.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s change of tune was part of a settlement overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. The union had filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the N.L.R.B. concerning Mr. Walker\u2019s note in August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The agreement is another blow to Google\u2019s corporate policies designed to maintain secrecy<\/a>, which have been scrutinized amid the search case brought by the Justice Department. It also undercut Google\u2019s strategy to keep its business humming during the lawsuit \u2014 to have employees ignore the antitrust battle and remain focused on their work.<\/p>\n

Mr. Walker, Google\u2019s president of global affairs, first told employees not to discuss the case when it was filed in October 2020, according to an email viewed by The Times.<\/p>\n

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The Silicon Valley giant had ordered employees to stay silent on the landmark case before reaching a settlement with a workers\u2019 union over the issue.When Google lost its landmark antitrust trial in August, Kent Walker, its top lawyer, reminded employees, for the third time, that they were not allowed to discuss the case with one another or anyone outside the company.On Friday afternoon, Google rescinded the command as part of a settlement with the Alphabet Workers Union, a group representing some of its employees and contractors, according to an email Google sent to workers that was viewed by The New York Times. Alphabet is the parent company of Google.The company told employees it would not \u201cannounce or maintain overbroad rules or policies that restrict your right to comment, internally or externally,\u201d about how the antitrust lawsuit targeting Google\u2019s search engine might affect the terms and conditions of their employment.Google\u2019s change of tune was part of a settlement overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. The union had filed an unfair labor practices complaint with the N.L.R.B. concerning Mr. Walker\u2019s note in August.The agreement is another blow to Google\u2019s corporate policies designed to maintain secrecy, which have been scrutinized amid the search case brought by the Justice Department. It also undercut Google\u2019s strategy to keep its business humming during the lawsuit \u2014 to have employees ignore the antitrust battle and remain focused on their work.Mr. Walker, Google\u2019s president of global affairs, first told employees not to discuss the case when it was filed in October 2020, according to an email viewed by The Times.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25509,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25510,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25507\/revisions\/25510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}