According to reports, Google is reportedly taking other cost-cutting measures, such as not paying for the maternity and medical leaves it authorized to be used by its former employees. This comes after Google recently let go about 6% of its whole workforce in January of this year.
According to a CNBC story, all of the former Google employees who were let go while they were on approved medical or maternity vacations have complained that the internet giant is not compensating them for their time off.
More than 100 former employees have joined a group called “Laid off on Leave” and are demanding that the business pay them back for the lengthy absences that they took before the company announced its employment cuts in January.
The software giant reportedly informed the departing employees that they would get customary severance compensation and their income only up until the day of their selected departure date.
The group of ex-employees has written three letters to leaders, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Chief People Officer Fiona Cicconi, but so far no answer has been received. The group includes those who received a sanction or are now on a caregiver’s leave, maternity leave, personal leave, or medical leave.
Google announced huge layoffs in January that affected 12,000 employees
After extending its expansion era in the IT sector, Google announced huge layoffs in January that affected 12,000 employees, or around 6% of its total staff. The reason was the falling sales growth.
Almost 1,400 employees of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, signed a petition after it was revealed that the business intended to terminate 12,000 workers. The petition demanded that workers be treated better during the layoff process.
Employees demanded in an open letter to CEO Sundar Pichai that voluntary redundancies be given preference over forced ones, that laid-off workers be given first dibs on open positions, that workers be allowed to finish any approved leave periods, such as parental and bereavement leave, and that new hires be frozen.