YouTube Music's Contractors Are Actually Employees, According to a Federal Labor Official
AWU Executive Chair Parul Koul accused Alphabet of operating a “multi-tiered employment system,” that lets the company oversee the labor for an army of contractors without providing then adequate pay or benefits.
“Alphabet employs more subcontractors than direct employees,” Koul said in a statement sent to Gizmodo. “This employment model allows them to profit billions every quarter while denying responsibility for tens of thousands of workers who are integral to that income.A Google spokesperson, meanwhile, told Gizmodo they “strongly disagree” with the ruling and plan to appeal.
“We are confident the facts and law clearly support our position,” the spokesperson said. “We simply don’t control these workers’ employment terms or working conditions.”The ruling comes roughly six months after a supermajority of the Austin-based YouTube contract workersworkers went on strike last month over the company’s return-“threatens the livelihoods of workers.
If the NLRB’s Alphabet employment ruling is upheld, it will mark the second significant victory for the tech behemoth’s army of contractor workers in less than a week. Last week, around 5,000 Google contract workers testing the quality of the company’s search and advertising tools
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