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But last year, in an company email, a Google manager said it appeared that there were 16 additional countries, including Brazil, Canada, Australia and Mexico, with some form of equal treatment laws for temps that the company had not properly recognized and had not taken any extra steps to be compliant with the local laws. As more countries implement new regulations, Google is being forced to take action. The Netherlands passed a new law in 2019 that required Google’s staffing agencies to… Source link

Google Pay is apparently just as much a disaster internally as the app transition has been externally. That’s the big takeaway from a recent Business Insider article detailing an exodus of executives from Google’s payment division, lower-than-expected app adoption, and employees frustrated with the slow movement of the division. Business Insider spoke with ex-employees and learned that “dozens of employees and executives have left” the… Source link

Earlier this month, tech firm Google told its employees they would see their pay lowered if they switch to working from home permanently, if the remote location has lower labor costs than where their former offices are located. Google will not change employees’ pay if they work fully remotely from the same city, but if they commuted from a location an hour away with lower costs, for instance, their pay would be reduced. “Our compensation packages have always been determined by location, and we… Source link

The Biden administration’s move to extend an eviction moratorium has done little to resolve a looming crisis — or rising tensions between tenants and landlords, with both camps stuck in a cycle of mounting confusion and despair. For now, evictions are again on hold across the U.S.: tenants have until October 3 to obtain government help to pay their rent. However, the extension is already being challenged in court — spearheaded by — where it may not survive legal scrutiny. A growing… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images for Greentech Festival) Getty Images for Greentech Festival It always felt like companies were acting as if they were doing their employees a favor by letting them work remotely. Despite the fact that major corporations, like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan, did phenomenally well during the pandemic, as almost everyone worked from home, there was still the undercurrent… Source link

Today’s smartwatch news has been dominated by Samsung’s new Wear OS 3-powered wearables, but Google wants you to know it hasn’t forgotten about smartwatches running Wear OS 2. Updates to Google Pay, Messages, and other third-party apps will be coming to current devices in addition to Wear OS 3, giving existing owners something to look forward to as they roll out over the coming weeks. For starters, Google Pay’s support for contactless payments from smartwatches is expanding to 16… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google may cut pay of staff who work from home  BBC News Source link

NEW YORK, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Google employees based in the same office before the pandemic could see different changes in pay if they switch to working from home permanently, with long commuters hit harder, according to a company pay calculator seen by Reuters. It is an experiment taking place across Silicon Valley, which often sets trends for other large employers. Facebook (FB.O) and Twitter (TWTR.N) also cut pay for remote employees who move to less expensive areas, while smaller companies… Source link

Photo by: BBB/STAR MAX/IPx 2021 2/24/21 A Walmart is seen in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Walmart (WMT), the nation’s largest private employer, says it will start paying 100% of the tuition for its debt-free college perk as part of a $1 billion commitment to career training and development over the next five years. In the summer of 2018, the big-box retailer began offering its 1.5 million U.S. associates debt-free college, as part of its $1-a-day college tuition perk, called Live Better U. Beginning… Source link

Pedestrians walk past a sign inviting people to apply for employment at a shop in Boston’s fashionable Newbury Street neighborhood, Monday, July 5, 2021. As the U.S. economy bounds back with unexpected speed from the pandemic recession and customer demand intensifies, high school-age kids are filling jobs that older workers can’t — or won’t. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Help-wanted signs are up all over the country, and businesses say they can’t get enough workers. But there’s a missing… Source link