Phil Mickelson will not play in the 2022 Masters. The three-time winner of the green jacket is on a sabbatical from golf following inflammatory comments about a proposed new Saudi Arabia-backed golf league. Mickelson’s name did not appear on the list of entrants posted on the Masters’ website, instead listed under the heading of “Past Champions Not Playing.” Golf Digest confirmed that Mickelson will not be playing in 2022. Mickelson is on a self-imposed sabbatical after the February publication… Source link

WASHINGTON— Alphabet Inc.’s Google should be forced to turn over internal emails that it has withheld or redacted in the antitrust case filed against it by state and federal governments, the Justice Department said Monday. In a filing in U.S. District Court, the Justice Department said that Google improperly invoked legal privilege to shield sensitive internal communications, a practice it said has gone on for years. Source link

U.S. equity futures ticked slightly higher heading into overnight trading Monday after hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell snapped last week’s winning streak on Wall Street. Contracts tied to the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite were just above breakeven in extended hours following a choppy session that saw all three indexes close lower to start the week. The Fed’s top leader reiterated in comments at the National Association for Business… Source link

Google has settled with six engineers over claims the company squashed employees’ efforts to organize, as first reported by Motherboard. The specifics of the settlement remain under a non-disclosure agreement, but four of the workers who were allegedly fired out of retaliation for their labor activism in 2019 will not be reinstated, while one still remains employed by the tech giant. Four employees, Rebecca Rivers, Laurence Berland, Paul Duke, and Sophie Waldman, filed labor charges… Source link

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At the start of the offseason, it seemed the most likely quarterback to switch teams was Jimmy Garoppolo. It’s not like anyone made a secret of a looming trade as the San Francisco 49ers‘ season ended. Yet, Garoppolo is still with the 49ers and there’s no obvious potential landing spot. Monday’s activity included Matt Ryan being traded to the Indianapolis Colts, Marcus Mariota replacing Ryan on the Atlanta Falcons, and Jameis Winston re-signing with the New Orleans Saints. It’s getting late in… Source link

(AP) – A former Google employee sued the tech giant for racial discrimination, saying it engages in a “pattern and practice” of unfair treatment for its Black workers. The suit claims the company steered them into lower-level and lower-paid jobs and subjected them to a hostile work environment if they speak out. April Curley was hired in 2014 to recruit Black candidates for the company. Her lawsuit, filed on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San… Source link

WASHINGTON— Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.24% Google should be forced to turn over internal emails that it has withheld or redacted in the antitrust case filed against it by state and federal governments, the Justice Department said Monday. In a filing in U.S. District Court, the Justice Department said that Google improperly invoked legal privilege to shield sensitive internal communications, a practice it said has gone on for years. “For… Source link

Google has agreed to settle a National Labor Relations Board case filed by six former and current employees who said the company had illegally fired or disciplined them because of their unionization efforts. As part of the settlement, which was agreed upon on Friday, the former and current Google employees also agreed to dismiss a related court case in California. The settlement terms are bound by a nondisclosure agreement, said Laurie M. Burgess, a lawyer representing the former and current… Source link

The Justice Department has asked the judge overseeing its antitrust case against Google to sanction the company for allegedly training employees to “camouflage” business documents from being revealed by legal disputes, per a brief filed Monday. Driving the news: The DOJ writes in its brief that Google teaches employees to request advice from counsel around sensitive business communications, thereby shielding documents from discovery in legal situations. Once counsel is involved, the company… Source link