Google Is at Risk for a Massive Employment Lawsuit. Your Company Might Be Too. Contractor-employee misclassification is no joke
May 31, 2019
Google works hard to keep the 121,000 contractors it employs separate from its permanent employees. The two groups wear different colored badges, contractors are barred from some meetings, and they aren’t provided employee perks such as health insurance and vacation time. The company apparently put these measures in place to make the status of its contractors as non-employees legally clear. Even so, it’s still risking a major labor lawsuit in Google’s home state of California.