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June
Google and its “Shadow Workforce”
Google has recently announced that it will require staffing agencies to pay a minimum wage of $15 to independent contractors. It will also require these staffing companies to provide health benefits, twelve weeks of parental leave, sick days, and reimbursement for continuing education costs. This announcement follows internal pushback from contract workers who voiced their frustrations in a demand letter to Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai signed “TVCs of Google.”
Google currently has more temps and contractors than full-time employees with 121,000