Here is Microsoft's Global Human Rights Statement. It derives from 2006 Microsoft signature into the UN Global Compact that aims at improving how multinational corporations promote human rights. You could think this is far away from the issues of paid leaves but when Microsoft commits itself to the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Labor Organization (ILO) Conventions (including the C-132 Annual Holidays with Pay Convention?) those documents refer to specific standards as far as paid leaves are concerned: article 24 of the Declaration makes 'periodic holidays with pay" a human right and the C-132 Convention makes 3 weeks the minimum standard for paid vacation (article 3), excluding the legal holidays that have to be added to those 3 weeks (article 6).
Microsoft follows those standards for its full time employees and Lionbridge almost does as well except the length of paid time off they offer to their FTEs start at 12 days, instead of 15. Both companies compensate they FTEs during the legal holidays and do not include them as PTO.
We think the same standard should apply to all Microsoft's supplier's employees.
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