“The umbrella that all these things fall under is exploitation,” said David Jones-Krause of Oakland, a former contracted content creator for Google customer-service functions.
Google’s minimum wage and benefits for contractors are withheld from thousands of its U.S. contract workers, a new report from a union alleges.that, “All our suppliers and staffing partners working with Google in the U.S. are required to provide a benchmark of benefits for their workers, including a $15/hour minimum wage, 12 weeks of paid family leave, eight days of paid sick leave, $5000/year in tuition reimbursement, and comprehensive healthcare.
“Time and time again we’ve heard from workers who are barred from receiving Google’s cited $15 minimum or are told they can’t take a sick day — even if they should be able to per Google’s own policy,” said Parul Koul, a Google software engineer and executive chair of the union. “Our report makes clear that Google is not doing enough to establish and enforce an ethical baseline of working conditions for all workers,”that about half the company’s global workforce as of 2019 were contractors.
Google called the survey “unrepresentative and misleading,” and said it held its U.S. contract companies accountable for meeting its “industry leading benchmark of wages and benefits for their provisioned employees who access our corporate systems and campuses.” The company did not immediately respond when asked to explain why the survey was purportedly unrepresentative and misleading.
Jones-Krause, 28, said vendor companies to Google keep many workers’ hours below 30 per week to skirt the wage-and-benefits requirement.
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