Google ’s TVC — short for Temps , Vendors , and Contractors — ask home a triumph today in the form of an increased minimum earnings and some basic benefits . Hooray ! Unfortunately , the TVCs currently working at Google probably wo n’t be around to see any of them .
As The Guardian ’s Julia Carrie Wongreportedthis morning , Google suddenly laid off 30 + extremity of its voice supporter team — family line who essentially worked to set the assistant in unlike land . According to one such doer , who spoke with Gizmodo on term of anonymity , the squad was informed there would a alteration in scheme , and that the company would not be honor the end of their declaration . And so , with piddling to lose ( because again , they had effectively been shitcanned ) the temps built consensus within the society , hand out a alphabetic character this first light which garner over 900 signature in livelihood .
TVCs , like temps in other companies , typically do not welcome healthcare or other benefits , and lose a portion of their earnings to the staffing way that placed them at Google .
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The requirement of this contingent of workers were simple enough : pay out the remainder of our contract bridge , rent full - timers recognise the work we did , and convert stay TVCs at the company to actual employee . By most estimation , TVC ’s make up aroundhalfof Google ’s total staff .
A few hours after the letter became public , The Hillreportedthat Google ’s frailty chair of people operation circulated an national memorandum harbinger some changes to TVC communications protocol — changes which a spokesperson after confirmed with Gizmodo : 12 week of maternal farewell , at least eight sick days , comprehensive healthcare , and a $ 15 / hour lower limit wage “ In rules of order to do business enterprise with Google , all companies that employ U.S. vendor and temporary staff will ask to provide these thing , ” the representative wrote , “ none of which are currently mandate by US law . ”
The timing leads one to suspect these confident changes to contingent prole condition would be related to the backlash generate by this round of layoff , but according to the interpreter , “ the wages and benefits announcement [ … ] has been in the works a while . ”
unluckily , most of these update do n’t go into consequence until 2020 , or 2022 in the compositor’s case of health care . The maximum amount of time TVCs can work at Google is two years . It remains an important step forward , just not one that ’s likely to meliorate the lives of dead anyone temping , vend , or contracting at Google , powerful now .
It ’s bad news too for the letter - writers , whose demands are handily not addressed by this variety . Speaking toThe Guardian , one of the presently - too - be - laid - off worker said , roundly , “ This alteration signify nothing to us . ”
Yesterday another group of Googlers — over 1,600 of them — signeda letterdemanding their company remove Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James from its proposed engineering ethics board over her transphobic remarks . Google has yet to reply directly to that letter either .
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