'One of the things that I consider when deciding whether to spend time on an interaction is whether it is conducted in a tone that is reasonably enjoyable, and whether I feel I can have a productive conversation,' HГ¶lzle told Cernekee in an email. Emails obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request shed further light into the episode, including a tense exchange in which HГ¶lzle, a Swiss-born senior executive who oversees technical infrastructure at Google, told Cernekee his behavior was 'entirely inappropriate' and then refused to engage with him. HГ¶lzle, whose identity is redacted in public records of the NLRB settlement, was at the center of the dust-up, Insider has determined. While the broad strokes of Cernekee's case against Google have been widely reported in the press, many of the details that occured behind the scenes, including the extent of HГ¶lzle's involvement, have not. But earlier actions taken by Google - and HГ¶lzle in particular - in response to Cernekee's comments on internal message boards were a violation of protected worker behavior involving employment conditions, the NLRB found. The National Labor Review Board has ruled that Google was justified in firing Cernekee in 2018 for improper use of company equipment. Cernekee became a cause celГЁbre among Republicans, including former US President Donald Trump, who claimed he was targeted at Google because his political views were out of step with the company's liberal values.

HГ¶lzle's messages were to Kevin Cernekee, a truculent engineer on the Chrome team who many Googlers considered a right-wing provocateur and who was later fired from the company. Urs HГ¶lzle, a senior vice president and Google's eighth employee, sent email messages and wrote postings on internal message boards reprimanding a politically outspoken engineer for his comments and instructing him to refrain from making further comments, internal documents viewed by Insider show. One of Google's most senior executives was at the center of a politically-charged altercation with an engineer several years ago, in an incident that federal regulators have said violated labor laws and whose ripples continue to affect the company today.

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