GitHub, a technology company owned by Microsoft, on Sunday apologized for what its chief operating officer, Erica Brescia, called “significant errors of judgment” after alleging that he fired a Jewish employee for warning that “Nazis” among the pro -Donald Trump mob who attacked the US Capitol on January 6th.
“In light of these findings, we immediately reversed the decision to divorce the employee and we are in communication with his representative,” Brescia wrote in a blog post. “To the employee, we want to say in public: we sincerely apologize.”
According to Insider, who first reported the shooting, the tech firm terminated the employee two days after he predicted the insurgency’s potential Nazi links in a chat room. The message allegedly gave a warning: “stay safe friends, Nazis are over”.
The shooting immediately erupted among staff. In response, GitHub hired an outside firm to investigate. The findings, released Friday, revealed procedural errors that led the tech company to offer the employee his job, and that his head of human resources retire on Saturday.
Employees later distributed a letter demanding that the company answer questions about the termination of the worker, while also appealing to white supremacy.
In Sunday’s blog post, GitHub noted that the executive acknowledged that ’employees are free to express their concerns about Nazis, anti-Semitism, white supremacy or any other form of discrimination or harassment’ in an earlier statement shared with employees .
“It was horrible to watch last week a violent mob, including Nazis and white supremacists, attack the American Capitol,” Friedman said. “That these hateful ideologies could reach the holy seat of our democratic republic in 2021 is sickening.”