Google walkout sign Google employees have been organizing on several fronts, including workplace harassment, the treatment of contract workers and what kind of work the company does for government and military groups. (Photo: Michael Short/Bloomberg)

After months of worker protests, Alphabet Inc.’s Google will stop making its employees sign away their right to bring claims against it in court.

Google stopped so-called forced arbitration in cases of sexual harassment and assault last year after 20,000 workers walked out to oppose how the search giant handles internal complaints. That wasn’t enough for some of the employees, who kept pressing the company to end the practice altogether. Google will do that on March 21, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. The company will also cease enforcing agreements that waived workers’ right to bring their claims as class actions.

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