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After a year of employee strife, regulatory scrutiny and public rancor, Google has asked its shareholders to vote against proposals seeking to examine some of its recurring issues. Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +0.43% GOOG, +0.49%, Google’s parent company, is asking shareholders at its annual meeting to vote against eight shareholder proposals that seek answers or changes related to content takedowns, anticompetitive actions and… Source link

In a new interview with Yahoo Finance, U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh suggested the results of a historic union vote at an Amazon (AMZN) warehouse in Alabama are imminent. He also objected in general terms to anti-union “intimidation” amid concerns over a campaign waged by Amazon to dissuade workers from supporting the organizing drive. “The Amazon situation — we’re going to see what the result of the vote is in the next few days,” Walsh says. Vote-tallying by the National Labor Relations… Source link

Google must allow workers at one of its data centers in South Carolina to talk about their pay and inform them of their rights to organize under a settlement it reached with the National Labor Relations Board. Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +0.78% GOOG, +0.64% and subcontractor Modis E&T have agreed to post notices telling employees, among other things, that they have the right to form, join or assist a union; discuss pay and working… Source link

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Google promised not to silence workers who talk about their pay, part of a settlement resolving one of the first legal complaints filed by a new union representing hundreds of employees and contract workers at the internet giant. “WE WILL NOT tell… Source link

Workers whose states denied them unemployment aid during the COVID-19 pandemic may be able to retroactively access benefits back to Feb. 2, 2020, according to a new Labor Department rule issued Thursday. The Department of Labor (DOL) broadened access to the federal pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA) established under the CARES Act, and comes in response to a Jan. 22 executive order seeking clarification on who qualifies for it. The DOL rule expands eligibility to certain workers who… Source link

The settlement includes back pay and interest to thousands of female engineers. Stephen Shankland/CNET … Source link

Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 1.84% Google LLC agreed to pay more than $3.8 million to resolve a case of hiring and pay discrimination at several locations in California and Washington state, the Labor Department said. Under the terms of the agreement, Google agreed to pay nearly $1.4 million in back pay and interest to 2,565 female employees in engineering positions and about $1.2 million in back pay and… Source link

The “union” formed by workers last week at Google parent company Alphabet isn’t really a labor union in the traditional sense. Rather it’s a pressure group funded by the Communications Workers of America, which will provide staff and support to generate negative publicity about management at the Mountain View, Calif., company. The so-called Alphabet Workers Union is composed of fewer than 800 workers among Alphabet’s roughly 250,000 employees and contractors, some of whom… Source link

Google engineer Raksha Muthukumar is among more than 500 employees of the tech giant who this week announced the formation of a labor union, a rarity in Silicon Valley. Courtesy of Raksha Muthukumar hide caption toggle caption … Source link

A group of Google engineers and other workers announced Monday they have formed a union, creating a rare foothold for the labor movement in the tech industry. About 225 employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet are the first dues-paying members of the Alphabet Workers Union. They represent a fraction of Alphabet’s workforce, far short of the threshold needed to get formal recognition as a collective bargaining group in the U.S. But the new union, which will be affiliated with the… Source link