Google announced April 2 that it will require contracting companies to provide their employees healthcare, parental leave and other benefits, according to Bloomberg.
Contracted employees will now be offered health benefits, sick leave, $15-an-hour minimum wage, paid parental leave and $5,000 a year for education, Google told Bloomberg in an email.
While Google is known for its generous benefits for its own employees, more than half of Google's workforce is not full time. The internet giant pays for thousands of contractors, temporary workers and vendors who do everything from serving food to software coding.
"Google's top requirement is comprehensive healthcare that covers the employee and their dependents and includes hospitalization, preventative and wellness services, laboratory and emergency services, prescription drugs, mental health services, labor and delivery, newborn and pediatric services, oral and vision care, rehabilitative and habilitative care and counseling," according to Bloomberg.
Contracting companies will have until 2022 to implement the healthcare benefits. The companies will also have to offer a minimum of eight days of sick leave and 12 weeks of paid leave for birth parents, non-birth parents and adoptive parents, a spokesperson from Google confirmed.
"Going forward, in order to do business with Google, all companies that employ U.S. vendors and temporary staff will need to provide these things," Google told Bloomberg.
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