According to the group coordinating the protests, Google has dismissed 20 more employees who it claims were participating in protests last week against the company's cloud computing deal with the Israeli government, bringing the total number of sacked employees to 50.
The group behind Tuesday's demonstration at Google headquarters, No Tech for Apartheid, said in a statement on Monday night that Google has let go of 20 more employees, joining the thirty that were fired last week.
According to No Tech for Apartheid, some of the sacked employees were not actively involved in the workplace action and were instead "non-participating bystanders" during last Tuesday's sit-in protests at Google's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, and New York. The tech giant's "aggressive and desperate act of retaliation" was denounced in the statement, along with the mass firings.
A Google representative acknowledged further firings had occurred in a statement to CNN on Tuesday morning, but she was unwilling to disclose how many employees had lost their jobs as a result of the demonstrations.
According to the spokesperson, Google looked into the "physical disruption inside our buildings on April 16." The spokesperson added, "We have concluded our investigation into these events and terminated the employment of additional employees who were found to have been directly involved in disruptive activity."
"To be clear, each and every individual whose job was terminated had a direct and personal involvement in disruptive activities occurring within our premises. We thoroughly verified and confirmed again," the Google spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, the protest organizers claim that not all of the sacked employees caused any commotion within the Google headquarters.
This article was originally published on CNN.