In response to evolving employment practices under the Trump administration in the US, Rachel Curley, deputy general secretary of the influential technology union Prospect, highlighted the distinctions between the two nations: "Tech companies like Google, whose US owners are changing employment practices to fit with the new Trump administration, need to be aware that employment law operates very differently in the UK.
Google abandons diversity hiring targets as it reviews DEI programmes Google has joined the ranks of major US companies scaling back on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, as it drops hiring targets and reassesses its programmes.
This week, Alphabet, Google's parent company, released its annual report, leaving out a line from previous reports that pledged commitment to "committed to making diversity, equity, and inclusion part of everything we do and to growing a workforce that is representative of the users we serve".
Striking a different chord from the US approach, the Labour Government is looking to bolster Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) protections by proposing mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting and enhancing workers' rights.
The DEI row back at Google comes after it removed a pledge from its artificial intelligence (AI) principles that said the company would not use the technology to develop weapons.
