GitHub offers the Jewish employee they fired back his job, following their statement, saying it was “a mistake.” Carrie Olesen, the firm’s Human Resource head, is resigning. The admission comes following GitHub’s hiring of a law firm of independent category for investigation of the firing activity.
The firing was met with widespread criticism by a few of the company’s employees, raising questions as to why the employee was fired in the first place. Several other employees penned an open letter to the higher commission in the office. All of it had to do with the Capitol riots on the 6th of January.
Why GitHub Fired The Employee?
The firing was a controversial move as of today. It happened following a comment from the worker, who warned his fellow-employees from Washington, DC being aware of “Nazis.” The message was posted when the riots took place when the U.S Capitol was broken into by several right-wing radicals. One of the other colleagues was offended by the word “Nazi.” They immediately reported it to the HR team. That Jewish employee was reprimanded two days after this scenario.
Following the head of HR’s resignation, Nat Friedman, the CEO of the company, made a statement. He said that the investigation taking place had reached a “conclusion.” The results claimed that there were several “mistakes” made in the firing of the Jewish employee. This was written in a message internal only to its staffers. Employees at GitHub are popularly known as hubbers. The CEO further stated that they would issue a public apology on the company’s website. Erica Brescia, the Chief Operating Officer of the company, added to the message that they “sincerely apologize.”
The Chief Executive Officer further made a statement a day ago, saying that any employee has the free will to express emotions about white supremacy. He also added that these could also address “antisemitism,” “color supremacy,” “neo-Nazis,” or any sort of discrimination.
