Google employees rebelled against unequal wages

Google temporary employees rebelled against the technological giant and signed a petition in which they demanded to pay them compensation. According to Insider, the staff claims are connected with the fact that the company illegally underpaying to freelance employees.

In early August, a report appeared in the media in which Google was caught in violation of the Wage Parity Law in several countries of Europe and Asia. According to this rule, companies cannot pay unequal salaries with staff and freelancers if they perform similar duties. There is no such law in the US, however, about 6,000 temporary employees, contractors and counterparties from around the world work in Google, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Poland.

Petition to Google calls on the company to pay contract employees “Complete wages to which they have legal right and which they deserve.” In total, the corporation owed its hired workers over $ 100 million. Also, Tikhnogigant called on to pay temporary employees in the United States the same amount as regular, regardless of the legislation of the country.

Petition was created by the Workers’ Union, organized in January. The requirements noted that the cost of compensation will be “a small amount, given the estimation of Google in a trillion dollars” and that the leadership “put into priority to avoid negativity in the press, and not to increase wages and, therefore, the quality of life of thousands of their employees.”

A unequal wage report commented on the director for compliance with the requirements of Google Spyro Karetsos. He wrote in his blog that the high standard, which adhere to tehnogigant, were not respected. Now the company holds a “careful analysis” of the situation to eliminate any discrepancy in wages.

In early August, Google has already come across claims from their staff. Then remote employees remain unhappy with wages. The company decided to reduce the salary of those workers who moved to live in cheaper areas, as they now had no need to look for accommodation closer to the office.

/Media reports.