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.
Google’s parent firm Alphabet in 2019 announced 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.”
But that announcement, made under pressure from direct employees angered about the firm’s treatment of contractors, contained a link to a company document restricting which contract workers are actually eligible for the minimum wage and benefits. And some vendors to Google find ways around complying with Google’s wage-and-benefits standards, according to the Alphabet Workers Union, which issued the survey-based report.
