GitHub employee fired for saying ‘Nazi’ in Slack refuses to return to job

A Jewish GitHub employee who was fired for warning Slack colleagues to stay Nazi-safe in the Jan.6 attack on the U.S. Capitol refused to return to his job after a company offer, GitHub said. TechCrunch.

“We offered the employee his job immediately after reviewing the investigation findings, and he declined,” a spokesperson for GitHub told TechCrunch. GitHub shared the same statement with The edge.

“The company and I have reached an amicable resolution,” the employee said in a statement to TechCrunch. “I appreciate that they spoke out against white supremacy and the dangers it poses to everyone.” The terms of the resolution are unclear, but the employee “had previously told me that he was asking for damages or some other form of reconciliation”, TechCrunch mentionned.

GitHub fired the employee two days after writing “Stay safe, the Nazis are about” to his colleagues at Slack on January 6, as first reported Business intern. About 200 of the company’s 1,700 employees signed an open letter demanding an explanation from the company, and employees began using the word “Nazi” in Slack to describe the rioters on Capitol Hill.

Following an independent investigation, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman admitted that “significant mistakes were made” in an internal message to employees on Jan. 16, and the company offered the employee his employment. The company’s human resources manager also resigned.

Updated March 15, 8:10 p.m. ET: Added the fact that GitHub shared a statement with The edge.